Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 21:44:54 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: Leonard Zettel <zettel@acm.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot messages Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104082142290.5360-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <3AD11309.A895B4F8@acm.org>
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On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Leonard Zettel wrote: :Sometimes it's the simple things that are hardest. :I am in the early stages of trying to get something up and :running, and I don't know much yet, but am trying hard to learn :from any source I can. So far I have struck out trying to answer :this question, looking in The Complete Free BSD, the online handbook, :and the FAQ. : :So: When the system boots (it does boot) I get a gazillion messages :streaming by. When I do scroll lock and up-arrow, what do you know, :the beginning of the display is gone - apparently fallen out of the :buffer. I really would like to know what *all* the boot messages are. : :1) Am I right in thinking they are logged somewhere? If so, where? /var/run/dmesg.boot :2) Is there a way to increase the number of lines that can be :accessed using the scroll lock technique? What is it? Yes. See the syscons(4) man page for details. -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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