New user seeking help.

[shacky8]

Does anybody know where the boot logs are, and how do i view them?

[gthill]

All logs are kept in the path /var/log/
You can view the boot log with the command dmesg

open a terminal and type
dmesg
at the prompt, this can be read as a normal user.
this information can also be found in the file /var/log/messages

then using the command
ls /var/log
will display all your logs to the terminal
To read the logs you need to be root user and use the cat command or a page reader like less.
try
man less
man cat
at the command line for more information.

e.g.
#less /var/log/messages

[stevea]

No - dmesg and /var/log/messages are two different things. dmesg are kernel messages and /var/log/messages are USERspace application messages.

[b_martinez]

On F8 my boot.log is always empty. I don't know if this is a decision impe=lemented as of F8 or before it.
You may want to try

 
su -
(enter root password here)
cd /var/log
ls -asl  [to find out the length of the boot.log file]

if anything is in there,

less boot.log

to read it { I think}
hth
bill