From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 11 5:15:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CD937B424 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 05:15:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lexx.my.domain (dyn193-ras42.screaming.net [212.188.137.193]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA28720 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:18:39 GMT From: John Murphy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: _bootverbose: How to enable it Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:15:22 +0100 Organization: The Organisation Reply-To: bigotfo@bigfoot.com Message-ID: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.6/32.525 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Salvo Bartolotta wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > >On 9/11/00, 2:59:05 PM, "bsdnewbie bsdnewbie" =20 >wrote regarding _bootverbose: How to enable it: > > >> I want to enable the variable "bootverbose" to trace the system boot >> sequence, but I do not know how to do! >Hello Bsdnewbie, > >I am not quite sure I have fully understood what you are looking for;=20 >however, you may wish to read boot(8) and its options -- e.g. -v. > If you press space at the 10 sec. countdown when the box boots up, and then type boot -v you get a verbose dmesg. I usually save this to a file with dmesg > dmesg.verbose.txt for future reference. (after logging on) HTH. John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message