From owner-cvs-all Fri Feb 25 11:49: 0 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419E637BB0D; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:48:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA05572; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:47:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , 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: Your message of "Sat, 26 Feb 2000 03:35:03 +0800." <20000225193503.5BBA91CDE@overcee.netplex.com.au> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:47:48 +0100 Message-ID: <5570.951508068@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <20000225193503.5BBA91CDE@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes : >"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. And the contents can be trivially retreived with a sysctl: $ sysctl machdep.msgbuf machdep.msgbuf: booting... Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #5: Thu Jan 6 09:01:41 CET 2000 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/CRITTER Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (131.73-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping = 12 [...] -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message