scoopy Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 There's a couple error messages that flash by as I boot MDK 9.1 that I would like begin to track down. The thing is they flash by kind of fast and was wondering how I can find these in a log or something. They may not be no biggy, but I would like to see all green "OK's" flash by instead and decrease the boot time. thanx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 dmesg | most or less, if that's your preferred pager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted May 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 Good, dmesg | less gives me some info that may help with the one message (about the usb ports/card reader), but dmesg | most gives me bash: most: command not found The one error I was looking for has something to do with: insmod: sd_mod already exists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramfree17 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 but dmesg | most gives me bash: most: command not found that's because qnr is using another distro and im guessing from his post that most is the preferred pager there. :) ciao! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fubar::chi Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 Good, dmesg | less gives me some info that may help with the one message (about the usb ports/card reader), but dmesg | most gives me bash: most: command not foundThe one error I was looking for has something to do with: insmod: sd_mod already exists sounds like it's being loaded twice. Maybe once in as a depency to some scsi stuff (burner?) by modprobe and then again separately in /etc/modules.conf . just a thought to get you started error hunting :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted May 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 shhhhhh, be wary, wary, qwiet... I'm hunting errors.... ehhehhhehhh. Now come out you scwery ewwors. Yep, think we are on to something here. K3b install probally had something to do with this one - tho modules.conf looks clean. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 dmesg | more in mandrake. I su to root and use gvim so I can move around more comfortably and if I choose, with the mouse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted May 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 that works bvc, thanks. I think all the errors are stemming from the USB card reader. While searching the forum here, I decided to try and clear up one of the errors by "reinstalling" the card reader. I get all green OK's now... as long as I have a flash card in it, but the errors come back as soon as I try to boot without one in there. Just to clarify, I was getting one of those error messages even tho I had a card inserted, but this has cleared up (for now). Will do more hunting another time. There must be a way to put this in fstab, so it is not checking this "disc" like it would a harddrive. thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 Just a guess, but I'd say you might want to set your flash up like a CD or Floppy drive in /etc/fstab: terry@timestorm: /home/terry 23:55:38 $ grep cd /etc/fstab /devices/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 use the noauto so it doesn't try to automatically mount at boot (that way it won't make a difference whether there is a card in it or not) - make sure you don't use ro though - that's "read only" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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