From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 25 11:35:30 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B23637BA9B; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:35:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BBA91CDE; Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:35:03 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Robert Watson , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern init_main.c In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" of "Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:22:20 PST." <95896.951506540@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:35:03 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000225193503.5BBA91CDE@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk "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