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Log files: location and description

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I'm looking for a comprehensive catalog of log files giving location, 
name, and one line description. I've Googled and found bits and pieces 
that are too narrowly focused. To paraphrase my situation, I'm not only 
not seeing the forest for the trees -- I'm also not seeing the forest 
for the leaves.

My current problem is finding the appropriate logs to document the 
details behind my addendum to Bug 852323.

The BIOS of the test machine can select whether to boot from the primary 
HDD or from a particular flash drive. There are multiple instances of 
Debian installed. Grub was installed to the MBR of that drive when 
Debian was installed to the drive's first partition.

I have a hypothesis, but I need to have facts to back it up.
Specifically:
1. During the installation process I need to inventory when and
    "as what" various USB devices are recognized. The installation
    target is a USB drive and Grub is being installed to its MBR.
2. Under particular circumstances it will fail to boot. I need
    to compare that log to that written when it successfully boots.
3. I need to know what happens during update-grub run from the HDD.
4. I need to repeat [2] but for the case that the the Grub menu is
    on the HDD.

TIA

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Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-07 16:40 +0200
  Re: Log files: location and description David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 22:10 +0200
    Re: HD device name assignments (was: Log files: location and  description) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-07 22:30 +0200
      Re: HD device name assignments Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 14:40 +0200
    Re: Log files: location and description <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-08 14:40 +0200
      Re: Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 16:00 +0200
        Re: Log files: location and description <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-08 16:50 +0200
          Re: Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 17:10 +0200
      Re: Log files: location and description Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-09 15:10 +0200
        Re: Log files: location and description <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-09 18:10 +0200
    Re: Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 14:40 +0200
      Re: Log files: location and description David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-08 22:40 +0200
    Re: Log files: location and description Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-10-08 15:50 +0200
  Debian-installer writes /dev/ references in grub.cfg, was Re: Log  files: location and description David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-09 02:10 +0200

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