On Wed, 31 May 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.admin, in article
<0lnfg.120$Cw3.14@trndny01>, Jim Anderson wrote:

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>I add my export file and then lots of NFS messages showed up
>in dmesg. I consider it a bug that the error message fails
>to show up in the log.

Error messages are sent to stderr, which during the boot process is the
console. You are apparently using some GUI login manager, which prevents
you from scrolling back through the frame buffer (using the left shift and
page-up keys together) BEFORE login, or starting a display manager.

Remember that during a boot (at least during the early stages) there is no
writable file system to write to.

Old guy