[NTLUG:Discuss] Questions, questions, questions

[Wayne Walker]

On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 11:55:56PM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> Is there a place where the results of the interactive part of startup is 
> recorded?  Seems like dmesg ends about that point.
On redhat/fedora, /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/boot.log have early boot log info.

> During startup, does init pass the parameter 'start' to all of the 
> scripts it runs for the runlevel?  If not, how do they know what to do?
Yes, start or stop based on whether the link name starts with S or K.

> Was reading up on LVM and kept seeing references to Red Hat.  Is this a 
> "Red Hat (and clone) thing" or does SuSE use it as well?  If it doesn't, 
> does it have a "replacement?"
RedHat and Fedora default to using LVM during install.  Other distros
probably support it, but I don't know.

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