Bug#755469: switch to systemd : no more visible boot messages

[Erwan David]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 01:13:38PM CEST, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> said:
> Am 21.07.2014 09:57, schrieb Erwan David:
> It is
> > then uimpossible to check that the boot works correctly.
> 
> It's certainly possible. Contrary to sysvinit, you can query the
> complete state of the system at any time.
> 
> Simply run systemctl (or "systemctl status") to get an overview of the
> running services.

This I did not know, not finding migration documentation for sysvinit users.


> 
> Log messages from boot can be queried via journalctl.
> 
> systemd follows the UNIX principle here, that no news is good news.
> 

No news is not always good news, espacially when you wait in front of
a black screen not seeing that something is going on...
That was my case this morning.