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Where Linux places the messages of boot?

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Mar 15, 2026220735 views
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I want to find place to where Linux writes all boot messages. You know: I searched with in /var/log/, but found nothing. I have CentOS 5.5. For example at boot time I had: "Determining IP information for eth0... failed; no link present. Check cable?" I don't care about error specificaly, but I can'…

Error Output

facility one    [STARTED]
facility two    [STARTED]
facility three  [FAILED]

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Most of the boot messages are put in a buffer, that you can access using the command . On most Linux distributions, that output is also stored in That you can view with

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