[tlug] Cleaning up the boot process

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

TLUG,

After upgrading to Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), my laptop boot up seems to 
take a little longer. At least it feels that way.

What is definitely a fact is that the graphical boot process is 
interrupted and text output showing all the various modules being loaded 
comes up on the screen.

As it scrolls by, I can see some error messages come up. I'd like to 
clear them up. They don't seem to be making the system unusable or 
unstable, but if it could speed up the boot sequence, that would be 
worth it.

So I checked /var/log and thought that all the boot messages were stored 
in a file called 'boot". But in that file all it says is:

(Nothing has been logged yet.)

So my question is, where can I get the output of what happens during the 
boot process so I can start to identify any errors?

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Dave M G
http://www.tlug.jp/wiki/User:Dave_M_G