From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 20:39:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C531065680 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:39:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) Received: from zivm-out1.uni-muenster.de (ZIVM-OUT1.UNI-MUENSTER.DE [128.176.192.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6CB8FC21 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:39:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a_best01@uni-muenster.de) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.42,406,1243807200"; d="scan'208";a="277349187" Received: from zivmaildisp2.uni-muenster.de (HELO ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE) ([128.176.188.143]) by zivm-relay1.uni-muenster.de with ESMTP; 15 Jul 2009 22:39:26 +0200 Received: by ZIVMAILUSER04.UNI-MUENSTER.DE (Postfix, from userid 149459) id 7A2081B008B; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:39:26 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:39:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Best Sender: Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20090715195909.GK63413@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange verbose boot log entry X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:39:46 -0000 thanks for the hint. that kernel option solved the problem. alex Dan Nelson schrieb am 2009-07-15: > In the last episode (Jul 15), Alexander Best said: > > just booted r195677 (8.0-BETA1) with > > verbose_loading="YES" > > boot_verbose="YES" > > and noticed this strange /var/log/messages entry: > > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku syslogd: kernel boot file is > > /boot/kernel/kernel > > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: 8) <---------- > > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: MCFG 0x7fee7e80 0003C (v1 GBT > > GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101) > > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: APIC 0x7fee7d00 00084 (v1 GBT > > GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101) > > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x7fee8520 003AB (v1 > > PmRef CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20040311) > > comments? > Your kernel message buffer is too small to store the entire verbose > boot > sequence in memory before syslog can extract it. It's a circular > buffer, so > new entries overwrite the oldest ones. The line just before the > "ACPI: > MCFG" line was probably another ACPI line that happened to end in 8 > and a > close-paren. Adding this to your kernel and rebuilding should let > you see > the entire boot output. If something's still truncated, double it > and try > again. > options MSGBUF_SIZE=65536