From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 15 19:59:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5631065673 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:59:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1F18FC20 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:59:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n6FJxBsK089089 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:59:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6FJxBJi041410 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:59:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6FJx9j6041407; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:59:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:59:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Alexander Best Message-ID: <20090715195909.GK63413@dan.emsphone.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:59:11 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange verbose boot log entry X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:59:13 -0000 In the last episode (Jul 15), Alexander Best said: > just booted r195677 (8.0-BETA1) with > > verbose_loading="YES" > boot_verbose="YES" > > and noticed this strange /var/log/messages entry: > > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel > > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: 8) <---------- > > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: MCFG 0x7fee7e80 0003C (v1 GBT GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101) > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: APIC 0x7fee7d00 00084 (v1 GBT GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101) > Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x7fee8520 003AB (v1 PmRef CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20040311) > > comments? Your kernel message buffer is too small to store the entire verbose boot sequence in memory before syslog can extract it. It's a circular buffer, so new entries overwrite the oldest ones. The line just before the "ACPI: MCFG" line was probably another ACPI line that happened to end in 8 and a close-paren. Adding this to your kernel and rebuilding should let you see the entire boot output. If something's still truncated, double it and try again. options MSGBUF_SIZE=65536 -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com