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    <body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" title="Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"> <span class="fn">Lennart Poettering</span></a>
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   title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - journalctl cannot be used when systems is not started"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86034">bug 86034</a>
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   title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - journalctl cannot be used when systems is not started"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86034#c7">Comment # 7</a>
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   title="RESOLVED NOTABUG - journalctl cannot be used when systems is not started"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86034">bug 86034</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net" title="Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>"> <span class="fn">Lennart Poettering</span></a>
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        <pre>journalctl looks for the journal files in /var/log/journal/<machine-id>/. If
you boot up with a rescue OS that has a different machine ID or a different
root it hence won't find any data there.

Hence, make sure:

a) to either chroot to the host OS, and then use journalctl
--directory=/var/log/journal/<machine-id>

b) or chroot to the host OS, and then use journalctl -m

b) or to run journalctl
--directory=<pathtorootdir>/var/log/journal/<machine-id>

c) or to run journalctl --root=<pathtorootdir> -m

The "-m" swicth merges the journals of all directories in /var/log/journal/*,
hence makes it unnecessary to figure out the machine id of the host.</pre>
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