From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 16:23:15 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 AF59016A41F for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:23:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jwb@homer.att.com) Received: from mail131.messagelabs.com (mail131.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AC0F43D53 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:23:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jwb@homer.att.com) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: jwb@homer.att.com X-Msg-Ref: server-8.tower-131.messagelabs.com!1132244587!12791480!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.9.1; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [134.24.146.4] Received: (qmail 6091 invoked from network); 17 Nov 2005 16:23:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ulysses.homer.att.com) (134.24.146.4) by server-8.tower-131.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 17 Nov 2005 16:23:07 -0000 Received: from akiva.homer.att.com (akiva.homer.att.com [135.205.212.39]) by ulysses.homer.att.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA29676 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:23:07 -0500 (EST) Received: from akiva.homer.att.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by akiva.homer.att.com (8.11.7+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id jAHGN6o01194 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:23:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200511171623.jAHGN6o01194@akiva.homer.att.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:23:06 -0500 From: "J. W. Ballantine" Subject: pausing boot process 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: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:23:15 -0000 I've started to get an error during the boot process that scrolls off the screen so rapidly that I don't have a change to read it. Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? Thanks for any hints. Jim Ballantine