From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 28 13: 1:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mcp.csh.rit.edu (mcp.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B0DC37B401 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:01:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from fury.csh.rit.edu (fury.csh.rit.edu [129.21.60.5]) by mcp.csh.rit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A145524B; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:01:05 -0500 (EST) Received: by fury.csh.rit.edu (Postfix, from userid 37404) id CCEDB2E079; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:01:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:01:00 -0500 From: Jon Parise To: Seth Kingsley Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot -v capture Message-ID: <20011028160100.A23305@csh.rit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Seth Kingsley , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20011028140808.C19580@csh.rit.edu> <20011028123934.C40700@fluff.meowfishies.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: <20011028123934.C40700@fluff.meowfishies.com>; from sethk@meowfishies.com on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:39:34PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message