From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 11 13: 7:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-176-106.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD3137B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9BK53h06903; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:05:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010112005.e9BK53h06903@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tomasz Paszkowski Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dmesg after reboot In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:52:44 +0200." <20001011215244.A47039@genesis.k.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:05:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:47:31PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <20001011211613.A1616@genesis.k.pl> Tomasz Paszkowski writes: > > : Does FreeBSD saves before reboot content of kernel message buffer ?? > > > > No[*] > > > > Warner > > > > [*] Some laptops seem to preserve the dmesg buffer and FreeBSD uses > > it. > > But it is 486DX2 as it was shown in dmesg listing If the message buffer magic number has not been corrupted by the BIOS, FreeBSD will reuse it. This works on any system that doesn't zero memory on a warm boot. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message