> > > Is there any way to stop the console scrolling during
> boot? My reason
> > > for this is I am trying to troubleshoot a boot problem with
> > > 2.4.18-pre7 and I would like to give a more useful report than "it
> > > won't boot" but the screen outputs information every few
> seconds and I
> > > can't "freeze" the display so I can copy down the initial
> error(s).
> > >
> > > This is an Intel unit using the standard console (not
> serial console).
> > > pre7 will not boot but pre6 boots every time.
You may try to make to make a system to sleep for a while (until you'll
press something for instance) from the initrd image. Take a look at the
Documentation/initrd.txt (???).
Depending on the message you are interested to see, this should help.
Alexandr Sandler.
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