Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:51:05 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: RazorOnFreeBSD <yann.luppo@attglobal.net> Subject: Re: boot log Message-ID: <20040417105105.GB5985@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040416235333.GX24048@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <005e01c423c7$e4cada60$0f01a8c0@razor> <376CD0D2-8FEE-11D8-8025-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20040416235333.GX24048@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:23:33AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 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
>=20
> 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.
Err -- are you sure about that? I have this in /etc/syslog.conf:
# uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.=
log
console.info /var/log/console.log
And consequently I have this in my /var/log/console.log:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: dumpon: crash dumps to /dev/d=
a0s1b (13, 131073)
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: swapon: adding /dev/da0s1b as=
swap device
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: Automatic boot in progress...
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1a:=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CH=
ECKS
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1a:=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: clean, 38468 free=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: (404 frags, 4758 blocks, 0.3%=
fragmentation)
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1g:=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CH=
ECKS
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1g:=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: clean, 15120392 free=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: (10632 frags, 1888720 blocks,=
0.0% fragmentation)
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1f:=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CH=
ECKS
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1f:=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: clean, 1700955 free=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: (133747 frags, 195901 blocks,=
2.2% fragmentation)
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1e:=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CH=
ECKS
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1e:=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: clean, 52326 free=20
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: (870 frags, 6432 blocks, 0.7%=
fragmentation)
I also get a nice transcript of running mergemaster in single user
mode when I do routine updates, or indeed any console output at all.
Cheers,
Matthew
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