initrd and messages in the kernel log

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 10:33:46AM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
> Question: in the boot process on my machine (Ubuntu 14), the standard
> Ubuntu initrd image is used.
> In that process of bootstrapping from initrd, several kernel modules
> from the initrd module are used.
> I believe that some of these modules are printing module messages
> using the standard kernel mechanism.
> Question in:  from what I see, these messages do not appear in the
> kernel log (/var/log/syslog). Is there a way
> to enable getting these messages to the kernel log ?

So some messages are showing up, but not all of them?  How do you know
some are missing?

If you run 'dmesg' do you see all of the messages there?

thanks,

greg k-h