Boot-time messages under Fedora 16

[Fred Erickson]

On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 17:56 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Friday 09 December 2011 12:18:30 Alan Stern wrote:
> > Under Fedora 14 and earlier, boot-time messages get stored in
> > /var/log/boot.log.  Things like "Welcome to Fedora" and "Starting
> > udev:" would appear there.
> > 
> > After I upgraded to Fedora 16, this no longer works.  Nothing gets
> > written to /var/log/boot.log.
> 
> Worksforme.
> 
> I guess there is something wrong with your installation, possibly due to 
> upgrading (mine is a clean install).
> 
> HTH, :-)
> Marko
> 
I too did a clean install of f16 and my boot log files are empty also. I
installed from the live cd - wonder if the cd is lacking a crucial file
to enable logging?
[fred at athbox log]$ ls -l boot*
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Dec  4 11:22 boot.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Nov 19 21:11 boot.log-20111120
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Nov 20 21:20 boot.log-20111127
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Nov 27 11:47 boot.log-20111204

Fred