[Newark] Diagnosing problems at boot

[Andy Goldschmidt]

Hey all

Yes "dmesg" is a good place to start - see if the usb device was detected
etc.

$  dmesg | less

You can then simply search for words like usb , sda, sdb etc

Cheers
Andy

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:08:52 +0000, Steve Caddy
<steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> This one is mainly for Bob, who was asking about USB problems at boot
after
> a
> kernel upgrade.
> 
> I'm not sure if this email list accepts attachments or not, but it's
worth
> giving this a go (if it doesn't work, we'll try something else):
> 
> You need to dump your last set of boot messages to a text file, using
this
> command line:
> 
> cd ; dmesg > dmesg.txt
> 
> This performs 3 operations... first it sets the current directory to be
> your
> home directory (just in case it wasn't anyway), then it retrieves the
boot
> messages using dmesg, and then it redirects the output to a file called
> dmesg.txt. You should then be able to find the resulting dmesg.txt file
in
> your home area, and attach it to an email to this list.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Steve
> 
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