Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:35:03 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c Message-ID: <20000225193503.5BBA91CDE@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> of "Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:22:20 PST." <95896.951506540@zippy.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > When using excessively verbose boots, the scroll-back buffer often doesn't > > reach back far enough. Is there any way, as with dmesg.boot in a normal > > install, we could provide sysinstall-based access to the boot messages > > without using the scroll-back? I.e., a new menu option, ``Review Hardware > > Probe Messages'' which provided a scrollable window pointing at the > > contents of dmesg? > > I can do this, but it will only really help you post-boot time. > The /var/run/dmesg.boot file doesn't exist on the MFS filesystem. The dmesg buffer is a lot bigger than the screen scrollback buffer. It would still be useful to see the output of dmesg. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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