boot errors - how see them?

[Hardy Merrill]

Thanks Brian for the great info!

Hardy

--- Brian Truter <fedora-list at kurse.damnyou.org>
wrote:

> > When I boot into run level 3 I can see all the
> boot
> > steps being OK'd, but one towards the end gets
> > "Failed" but it disappears before I can see just
> what
> > failed.  How do I see _what_ failed?
> >
> > When it finally boots and I log in, I did "dmesg |
> > less", but I'm not sure what I'm looking for.  I
> > searched for "error" and found these:
> >
> >   <snip>
> >
> > vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
> > apm: BIOS not found.
> >
> >   <snip>
> >
> > Initializing Cryptographic API
> > ksign: Installing public key data
> > Loading keyring
> > - Added public key 9488DB81FF525AA3
> > - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
> > ksign: invalid packet (ctb=00)
> > Unable to load default keyring: error=74
> > pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
> >
> > and that's it.  Is there another place to view the
> > "Failed" boot errors?  And, how do I correct these
> two
> > "error"s above?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Hardy Merrill
> >
> 
> vesafb is the Framebuffer, used for the fancy boot
> spash screens, etc.
> Maybe you dont have support for this compiled into
> your kernel? Usually it
> is loaded by adding parameters to the kernel line in
> your boot manager
> (grub/lilo). You could disable it there if you dont
> want/use it.
> 
> apm is Advanced Power Management, which seems to be
> disabled in your BIOS.
> You can disable the service also if you dont use it.
> 
> Both of these look like dmesg notifications, and
> neither is critical. Your
> kernel likes to probe everything when it
> initializes, and it is just
> reporting what it is doing.
> 
> 
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