Screen is a awesome tool but it can't capture everything what's happened
during boot.

The dd-solusion did the trick perfectly, exempt when I put the data into
Microsoft Windows because there was a bunch of unwritable characters that I
had to take care of.

Thanks anyway

Regards rancor

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Joachim Schipper <
joachim@joachimschipper.nl> wrote:

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> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 12:37:47PM +0200, rancor wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there any way of copy/pipe the information on the console to a file? I
> > need the same information that I can see of I hold down Ctrl+Shift and
> using
> > PageUp/Down when I'm on the console. I'm not using serial, that would be
> > simple but I'm stuck right on the machine.
>
> While Mickey's solution is rather cool, misc/screen would allow you to
> copy text off the screen (Ctrl-A [, select. Ctrl-A ]). It also has a lot
> of other useful commands.
>
> Of course, screen isn't found everywhere, while dd pretty much is.
>
>                Joachim
>
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