From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 0:46: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD46837B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 00:46:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA60087; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 01:45:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 01:45:58 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Leonard Zettel Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Boot messages In-Reply-To: <3AD11309.A895B4F8@acm.org> Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Leonard Zettel wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > [...] > 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? Yes :-) > If so, where? /var/run/dmesg.boot If you have rebooted the machine recently, you can use dmesg(8) to display these messages somewhat more conveniently. dmesg | more will page the output for you nicely. > 2) Is there a way to increase the number of lines that can be > accessed using the scroll lock technique? What is it? This involves editing your kernel configuration and rebuilding your kernel. If that scares you, I suggest you read the handbook section on custom kernel builds. Put the following line in your kernel configuration: SC_HISTORY_SIZE= Where is the desired history size. The default is 100. The maximum is 1000 lines per virtual terminal (1000 * MAXCONS). > Thanks for your patience > -LenZ- - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message