From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 23 19:56:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA04915 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 19:56:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA04910 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 19:56:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA05644; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:56:28 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199701240356.UAA05644@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: suggestion for kernel printk() ? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:56:28 -0700 (MST) Cc: dgy@rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <6454.854070716@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 23, 97 05:51:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > But, apparently the kernel image no longer contains the complete > > text of the kernel configuration file! :-( This sure had made it easier > > to backtrack in the past. Presumably, this has been removed to make the > > kernel's footprint smaller? > > You need to explicitly select this feature now. From LINT: > > # This allows you to actually store this configuration file into > # the kernel binary itself, where it may be later read by saying: > # strings /kernel | grep ^___ | sed -e 's/^___//' > MYKERNEL > # > options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel (sigh) This wasn't available in the 2.1 release. ;-) [but it's reintroduction later is welcomed news!] I'd still like to know of any good workarounds to pause the scrolling of the diagnostic messages at the *initial* stage of the boot (i.e. after the kernel image has been loaded). Thanks! --don