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Date:      Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:01:00 -0500
From:      Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>
To:        Seth Kingsley <sethk@meowfishies.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot -v capture
Message-ID:  <20011028160100.A23305@csh.rit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011028123934.C40700@fluff.meowfishies.com>; from sethk@meowfishies.com on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:39:34PM -0800
References:  <20011028140808.C19580@csh.rit.edu> <20011028123934.C40700@fluff.meowfishies.com>

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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Seth Kingsley wrote:

> > Can anyone suggest a means by which to capture the 'boot -v'
> > output without using a serial console?
> 
> dmesg(8), so long as it doesn't overrun the buffer.
> 
> -current is also writing boot messages to syslog presumably with the
> facility of kern.*.

Ah, I should have been more specific.

The machine is unable to boot, so I need to the 'boot -v' output
to diagnose that problem first.  It's a chicken-and-egg scenario.

-- 
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Information Technology (2001)
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member

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