From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 16:31:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F6D414C2D for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:31:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@caladan.tdx.co.uk) Received: from localhost (kpielorz@localhost) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA41445; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:31:05 GMT Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 00:31:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Karl Pielorz To: Tom Torrance at home Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DMESG anomaly In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Tom Torrance at home wrote: > Does anyone have a clue why dmesg only gives me a truncated > response (top chopped off) under RELEASE-3.1? > It did the same thing under RELENG_3 on the same machine. > > Please do a group reply... If you have a machine that has a lot of hardware in it, or spews out a lot of kernel output during/after boot - the dmesg output can overflow it's buffer... There might be a setting for this when you compile the kernel - I'm not sure... :( -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message