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Cc: A Hamilton-Wright <andrew@qemg.org>
Subject: Re: dmesg empty after shutdown -r
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On Thursday 01 May 2008 01:58:46 A Hamilton-Wright wrote:

> After "shutdown -r now" and the subsequent reboot, I have
> logged in to my machine
>  	FreeBSD qemg.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36
> UTC 2008     root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> amd64
>
> Everything seems to be running normally, except "dmesg" produces
> no output, and /var/run/dmesg.boot is zero bytes long.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas why this would ever occur?  Or even how
> it could occur?

dmesg -M doesn't show anything either?
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.