Empty boot.log

[David Timms]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 5/10/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
>> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am trying to figure out a problem that I am having with my madwifi
>> > supported wifi card not loading properly. As a result, i noticed that
>> > all my boot.log files are empty. What could be causing this?
...
>> dmesg is as good as it gets. someone decided to replace boot logging
>> with a better system and do away with logging to boot log. I cannot
>> recall what was supposed to replace the boot.log file
>> console=/var/log/boot.log ?
>>
> That's plain ridiculous. How am I to troubleshoot error messages that
> come up during boot? I can't exactly pause the boot.
A lot of boot messages do get into /var/log/messages, I don't know if 
this is the case if the machine hangs or locks up during boot.

DaveT.