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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.


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