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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
To: Wendell Borges <wendell@ramenzoni.com.br>
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Subject: Re: dmesg
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On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:32:43PM -0200, Wendell Borges wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0-RC3 but the message of dmesg shows FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4, which may be happening?
> 
> > %uname -a
> > FreeBSD nfedevel.ramenzoni.com.br 8.0-RC3 FreeBSD 8.0-RC3 #0: Tue Nov 10
> > 07:50:36 UTC 2009
> > root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> > %dmesg | head
> > Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
> > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> > FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Fri Oct  2 12:21:39 UTC 2009
> >     root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> > Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  E2140  @ 1.60GHz (1596.01-MHz 686-class
> > CPU)
> >   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6fd  Stepping = 13
> >   Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
> 

It is possible for dmesg to contain information from boots prior to the
current one if the boots were all soft reboots.  I bet if you look further
down the dmesg, or in /var/run/dmesg.boot, you'll see the right
kernel version mentioned.

Regards,

Gary