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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:26:53 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        "David J. Kanter" <djkanter@northwestern.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Viewing all start-up messages
Message-ID:  <20000714182653.D237@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000713204223.A5542@localhost.localdomain>; from djkanter@northwestern.edu on Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:42:23PM -0500
References:  <20000713204223.A5542@localhost.localdomain>

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On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 08:42:23PM -0500, David J. Kanter wrote:
> There is some start-up information that I'd like to view, but which is not
> picked up by dmesg. How can I view this?
> 
> For instance, all the messages about what's being booted from /etc/rc. When
> I upgraded to 4.0, there were some non-critical start-up errors that flashed
> by too quickly for me to catch. One I happened to notice was
> /var/log/security not existing...but that was pretty painful to catch.
> 
> How can I look at all those messages that occur after the kernel boots? I
> tried <Scroll Lock> <Page Up> but that doesn't show them either.
> 

It should do in 4.0. You couldn't scroll back in 3.x if you had
changed the console resolution via ``allscreens_flags'' (e.g.
VGA_80x43) but syscons(4) had a major re-write which added the
functionality.

> Thanks.
> -- 
> David Kanter
> djkanter@northwestern.edu
> 
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