On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:17:56 -0600
Phil Meyer wrote:
So in summary, if you see a syslog startup, followed within a few
lines
by the word ' Linux ', and what comes after that appear to be BIOS info,
and that all these messages happen in the same second or two, you have
found the top of the boot sequence.
All of which make my point that it would sure be a lot
simpler if there was merely a known string always printed
at the top :-).
At one time I relied on timestamp gaps till I was trying to
figure out the logs on a system where ntp was fighting
with something else and the time kept wildly swinging
on the running system.