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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Cc: "'les@safety.net'" <les@safety.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: RE: dmesg behaviour
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this is a wonderful feature that has saved my butt many times
(working in the kernel it's REALLY nice to have 
the last panic message in the dmesg buffer.)
learn to love it.. :-)



On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Koster, K.J. wrote:

> Dear,
> 
> >
> > On the supermicro
> > systems, we may see the information from the last 3 boots!  I see the
> > lines:
> > 
> > syncing disks... done
> > Rebooting...
> > 
> > and then we go right into the next boot.  At present, one of 
> > the machines shows all the detail from 2.75 reboots.
> > 
> > How and why is it doing this, and how do I make it stop?
> > 
> FWIW, FreeBSD/alpha also exhibits this behaviour. Perhaps it's better to
> adapt your tools to cope to improve their portability between
> FreeBSD-supported architectures?
> 
>     Kees Jan
> 
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