From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 13:37:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 580B216A41F for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:37:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5BF43D49 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:37:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:10063 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EUlTI-0005Np-TE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:37:40 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (http.aseed.antenna.nl [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A347A154FE8 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 346F35A0FCD for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:38:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:37:37 +0200 From: albi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20051026153737.40e697b1.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051026091406.3199.GERARD@seibercom.net> References: <20051026091406.3199.GERARD@seibercom.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Reading Startup Message Prior to Start Menu X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:37:42 -0000 On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:18:54 -0400 Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have FreeBSD 5.4 running. When it boots up, it prints some information > onto the screen, and then prints out the start up menu. > > How do I go about seeing what that information was that was printed out > prior to the startup menu presentation? I am just sort of curious as to > what it is displaying. hit "scroll lock" before that startup menu appears, then you can (afair) scroll back and forth with shift-pageup and shift-pagedown press "scroll lock" again to "unlock" the scrolling-feature (you can also look at /var/log/dmesg btw) -- grtjs, albi gpg-key: lynx -dump http://scii.nl/~albi/gpg.asc | gpg --import