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Date:      Sun, 21 Jul 2002 02:29:53 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "James A Halstead ;001;icsg3;" <jah4007@cs.rit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hmm, is this a feature?
Message-ID:  <20020721022953.A7234@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020721044420.GA4585@holly.cs.rit.edu>; from jah4007@cs.rit.edu on Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:44:20AM -0400
References:  <20020721044420.GA4585@holly.cs.rit.edu>

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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:44:20AM -0400, James A Halstead ;001;icsg3; wrot=
e:
> To the point: After the failed attempt at booting dp1, I threw in a boot =
floppy
> for 4.6.1-rc2. Booted fine, got the install going and after bin was done
> installing I took a look at dmesg. Low and behold, after scrolling back to
> the top of dmesg output on fixit shell, the fatal trap 9 message was still
> in the buffer! Is this some undocumented feature, or one I just missed ^_=
^?
> The machine was rebooted by pressing a key on console, so that may be par=
t of
> it.

This is normal.  It's supposed to allow you to see console errors after
reboot (say after a panic).  Personaly, I wish dmesg(8) would only show
the current boot's dmesg output unless you pass a special flag since
info from previous boots is of rather limited use in almost all cases,
but currently it saves the buffer at boot if possiable.

-- Brooks

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