[LUNA] Quiet list ....

[Bob Nance]

The kernel messages at startup can give you a lot of info, too. You can use dmesg to see what was logged. If you want a lot of info, you can add the debug argument to the end of your kernel boot line (I think) and give yourself more information than you would ever want. The argument is tunable. 

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> On Mar 21, 2015, at 9:31 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/20/15 17:54, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>> On 03/20/15 16:12, Branden Harper wrote:
>>> I use the command 'dmidecode'.  It will give you a lot of information, so
>>> pipe it to a file or less
>>>> On Mar 20, 2015 3:39 PM, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> .... so let's stir up a bit of conversation. I have a small Q6600-based
>>>> server running FC14 64-bit, terminally patched up. Is there a (CLI) command
>>>> to get a summary of the properties of the various slots on the MB (Tyan
>>>> Tomcat Q35, BTW) ? I am gonna upgrade it to CentOS 6 in the near future &
>>>> may add RAID card(s) & want to know about the available slots before I
>>>> order. TIA & have a nice day ....
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>>         William A. Mahaffey III
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>> Thanks, I tried dmidecode -t slot & got a synopsis of 4 PCI slots & 2 PCIE slots, but I want a bit more info (how many lanes in PCIE slots) .... man page provides no clues, nor does lspci .... Any other ideas ? Thanks, BTW & TIA ....
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> *Sooooooo* tacky to self-reply, but just to close this off, 'lspci -vv | grep -B 20 Width' *did* give me the info I wanted. Unfortunately, as warned about in the man pages, it was/is wrong :-/ .... I eventually located the manual for this board & got the info I was looking for, so this mater is .... closed, sorta successfully .... Thanks :-) ....
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