[debian-non-standard] information regarding /var/log

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Mon Mar 10 15:24:28 CET 2008


ffw.s at gmx.de schrieb:
> Hello,
> Am I right that /var/log on the usb stick should be updated during boot from 
> usb? So if /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg and so on are not changed it 
> was not booted from usb stick?
> I'm just trying to debug why booting debian on my Freecom FSG-3 does not work. 
> Files on the stick are not altered here after connecting stick, power-up FSG 
> and wait ~30min. Any clue what the problem could be?

Did you see "troubleshooting" for FSG-3?

Also, see 
http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_ASUS_WL-500G_deluxe#Troubleshooting

Most frequent problems are:

- wrong tune2fs (use -c0 and -i0 options)
- wrong partitioning
- wrong filesystem



-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski



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