I am seeing this in '/var/log/boot':

$ cat $logs/boot
(Nothing has been logged yet. If you're still seeing this message your current init system might not write bootup messages to the system console at all.)

Listing services show, that the service is enabled, but not running:

$ /etc/init.d/bootlogd status
bootlogd is not running ... failed!

The latter is an indicator of "something wrong" - I get the same message on my hardware,
where bootlogd works - where, at the moment after it has been run, it stops and causes
this message. So, this type of "status" is just not worth a penny.
This behavior is the same for all my containers.
No good work or containers without boot-logging!

A hint could be, how an equivalent to kernel commandline argument "debug" can be set.

Some help would be good!
Thanks,
Manfred

Environment:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus)
Release:	5
Codename:	daedalus
---
Linux devu5test 5.10.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.70-1~bpo10+1 (2021-10-10) x86_64 GNU/Linux
---
bootlogd:
  Installed: 3.06-4devuan3