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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 21:48:55 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl
Subject: Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com
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>I would vote for just printing what is found by default and 
>a -v option to give all kinds of debugging information, but
>then the screen should also freeze after each screen full of
>debugging info, in the past I had problems with the NCR driver
>and I had to reboot like 10 to 20 times before I got enough
>of the messages that were flying by.

Did you try scrollback?  The default scrollback is only 100
lines total, but it could be 100000 lines or so while booting
since the memory is not being used for anything else.

Bruce