[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] The kernel logs are written to `/dev/klog`. Run `cat /dev/klog > foo` as root and hit `ctrl+c` after a few seconds to catch the logs. You can do this only once and do not do this in single-user mode (where `ctrl+c` does not work).