How to capture console messages during boot

Is there any way to capture the FULL range of messages that scroll up the console during boot?

I'm running Feisty Fawn 7.04 64-bit workstation with raid 1. Due to the race condition with mdadm not having the arrays assembled before attempts are made to mount the array devices, I have quiet=n and break=mount set in my menu.lst to force the system to pause so that the array assembly can complete. Consequently I can see the boot process messages on the console. The other day, following recovery from a backup, I noticed some errors among the boot messages but was unable to read them fully because they scrolled off the screen too quickly.

None of these messages appear in any of the log files in /var/log.

I tried enabling bootlogd so that these messages would be recorded in /var/log/boot, but it wouldn't work. Further researches showed that this no longer works in Feisty and has intentionally been disabled.

In the end I had to film the boot process with a digital camera in order to be able to read these error messages and fix the underlying problem!!!

This is hardly the kind of thing you expect to have to do in the world of Linux, is it? Surely there must be a better way to capture these boot-time messages?

I have searched the forums, but have been unable to find a solution. Lots of folk suggest enabling /etc/default/bootlogd, (examples in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=49925), but it doesn't work on Feisty due to this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/98955

Just to be completely clear, these messages DO NOT appear in /var/log/dmesg or in any of the other files in /var/log.

So, until there's a proper fix, how do I capture these messages without having to use a digital camera?

Surely, there must be a way.... Even Bill Gates would do better than this.

Mike