Initial boot-up

[Muttleys]

The initial Debian boot-up has pages and pages of messages.

Is there any way to pause this in order to be able to read these messages?

Or alternatively write it to a file for later interrogation. - maybe it already is but waht is the file called?

[itimpi]

There is a command called 'dmesg' that you can use to look at the system logs.

In practise you probably want to pipe it through something else to allow you to page through it. e.g.

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dmesg|less

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