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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:59:25 +1100
From: Brendan J Simon <brendan.simon@bigpond.com>
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Timothy Covell wrote:

>On Thursday 24 January 2002 23:05, George Bonser wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
Try <ctrl>s to stop the display scrolling and <ctrl>q to restart it.

Regards,
Brendan Simon.


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