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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: scrolling back dmesg during install? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 1995 09:38:58 +0100."
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 00:43:41 -0800
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From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@westhill.cdrom.com>
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Christoph Kukulies wrote in message ID
<199511160838.JAA21633@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>:
> Thanks. But dmesg output cannot be called back, can it?

Hmm? Do you mean the kernel printfs during probe/boot? It can, but you
have to wait for the boot to finish before you can use the scroll lock
key. And all syscons vty's can be scrolled AFAIK, so you should
definately be able to scroll the debug screen on ALT-F2.

Gary