On 2024-02-07, Richard Owlett wrote:
> System description
> 1. Dell Latitude E6410
> 2. Grub 2.04-20 [label displayed above boot menu]
> Debian Bullseye [11.1] on SDA1
> Debian Stretch [9.13] on SDA7 - my day-to-day system
> 3. 13 GB swap space available at sda5
>
> Questions
>
> When I boot to Stretch, error/warning messages go by to fast to read.
> Can they be retrieved after system is running?
Should be in /var/log/boot or dmesg. I can't remember if stretch uses
systemd, but if it does, you'll likely need some invocation of
journalctl (but I don't have a system to verify a quick google search,
so don't want to lead too far astray)
>
> How do I automatically enable swap when booting?
have an entry in /etc/fstab to load the swap.
UUID=[THE_UUID] none swap sw 0 0
or with your /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5 none swap 0 0
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