From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 28 16:40:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9ED37B406 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 16:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with UUCP id f9T0dsR64084; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:39:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely20.cicely.de [10.1.1.22]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id f9T0XiSe049801; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:33:52 +0100 (CET)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9T0XPF12372; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:33:25 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f9T0XUj53327; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:33:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:33:30 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Jon Parise Cc: Seth Kingsley , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot -v capture Message-ID: <20011029013329.D49388@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <20011028140808.C19580@csh.rit.edu> <20011028123934.C40700@fluff.meowfishies.com> <20011028160100.A23305@csh.rit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011028160100.A23305@csh.rit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 04:01:00PM -0500, Jon Parise wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Seth Kingsley wrote: > > > > Can anyone suggest a means by which to capture the 'boot -v' > > > output without using a serial console? > > > > dmesg(8), so long as it doesn't overrun the buffer. > > > > -current is also writing boot messages to syslog presumably with the > > facility of kern.*. > > Ah, I should have been more specific. > > The machine is unable to boot, so I need to the 'boot -v' output > to diagnose that problem first. It's a chicken-and-egg scenario. If you have an IR interface which you can set to IRDA1 FreeBSD will see it a normal seriel interface. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message