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How? I'm talking about the screen that also informs me occasionally about drives being checked for errors... Are messages displayed there echoed to one of the logs? Which one?

Is there a way to "step through" the boot process?

Into which of the logs are messages at this stage normally written?

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You can always press the super key (Windows logo) and type "log", then click on "System Logs" and you should see a variety of logs you can browse through. They're all neatly organized so not difficult to understand them.

If you need more information, you can always manually check /var/log directory

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  • +1 for pointing out that desktop app - I've always reached for the console to dig around in logs so far. BUT: the question is less "where do I find logs", it's more "in which log should I look for this specific flash message, into which log does this boot-stage write?" Thus the fsck tag...
    – isync
    Jun 22, 2014 at 12:06
  • not sure what messages you mean... you can probably check the output of the command dmesg or contents of /var/log/syslog
    – Jakke
    Jun 22, 2014 at 12:26
  • As this message flashes where usually the "Your drives are being checked for errors" comes up, after every 30 boots: where is the result/this well-known activity logged? (or is the result of on-boot fsck logged at all in case there is no error? Wondering...)
    – isync
    Jun 22, 2014 at 12:55

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