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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 22:41:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Jesus A. Mora Marin" <amora@zoom.es>
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Subject: Re: Saving configuration changes at boot time
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Jesus A. Mora Marin wrote:

> Pretty simple question:
> Where is recorded the changes in the hardware configuration made at 
> boot time (I mean devices to be probed, changes in I/O addresses,
> etc)?

The boot messages are put into the system log and are viewable by running
`dmesg'.  The settings themselves are stored into the kernel.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major