On 05/31/2011 07:25 AM, R. G. Newbury wrote: > It is far easier to add: echo "Completed boot at `date`" > > to the bottom of /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > Then it does not matter whether the system is using the old method or > systemd and whether it is writing to 'messages' or boot.log. The whole point of this is to show where the boot starts, not ends.