From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 19:21:40 2002 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 1001C37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:21:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6247843E65 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:21:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6O2La9M032937; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:21:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:21:36 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Ed Yu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to capture bootup messages? Message-ID: <20020724022136.GH62770@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020724013442.24259.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020724013442.24259.qmail@web20709.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 23), Ed Yu said: > When the machine boots up, I get whole bunch of > messages at console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) Some of it is in > dmesg but the rest (with the daemon start info) is > lost. Are they saved anywhere? If not, how do it put > them in a log file so I can read them after the bootup > process is done. BTW, is there a way to scroll the > boot up messages at Ctrl-Alt-F1 console? Page Up and > Page Down doesn't work. Hit scroll-lock first; then you can page up. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message