From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 16:53:39 2004 Return-Path: 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 026EA16A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EACC43D4C for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:53:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868DD2BD7F for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:53:36 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C0F3551227; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:23:33 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:23:33 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Charles Swiger Message-ID: <20040416235333.GX24048@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <005e01c423c7$e4cada60$0f01a8c0@razor> <376CD0D2-8FEE-11D8-8025-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="s8wpp40TDz0KNMmP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <376CD0D2-8FEE-11D8-8025-003065ABFD92@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: RazorOnFreeBSD Subject: Re: boot log X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:53:39 -0000 --s8wpp40TDz0KNMmP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 16 April 2004 at 17:37:10 -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Apr 16, 2004, at 11:31 AM, RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: >> I just would like to know how can I read the exact text that is >> displaying very fast at the FreeBSD boot. > > Try: > > dmesg | less Unfortunately, this shows only the kernel messages, not the subsequent messages from userland programs run during startup. In particular, messages from fsck(8) are missing. Unfortunately, since the demise of paper consoles, there's no way to save this information. This is a general UNIX problem, not a FreeBSD problem. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --s8wpp40TDz0KNMmP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAgHH9IubykFB6QiMRAvArAJ9q8N3u7OqGjl+WwbU6a0cHwMB0KACgqF+n Ap5+okKRxlIB6m/gvBUKaro= =cuTH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --s8wpp40TDz0KNMmP--