On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 09:23:33AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 16 April 2004 at 17:37:10 -0400, Charles Swiger wrote: > > On Apr 16, 2004, at 11:31 AM, RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: > >> I just would like to know how can I read the exact text that is > >> displaying very fast at the FreeBSD boot. > > > > Try: > > > > dmesg | less > > Unfortunately, this shows only the kernel messages, not the subsequent > messages from userland programs run during startup. In particular, > messages from fsck(8) are missing. Unfortunately, since the demise of > paper consoles, there's no way to save this information. This is a > general UNIX problem, not a FreeBSD problem.
Err -- are you sure about that? I have this in /etc/syslog.conf:
# uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log
console.info /var/log/console.log
And consequently I have this in my /var/log/console.log:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: dumpon: crash dumps to /dev/da0s1b (13,
131073)
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: swapon: adding /dev/da0s1b as swap device
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: Automatic boot in progress...
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1a:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1a:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: clean, 38468 free
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: (404 frags, 4758 blocks, 0.3%
fragmentation)
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1g:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1g:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: clean, 15120392 free
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: (10632 frags, 1888720 blocks, 0.0%
fragmentation)
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1f:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1f:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: clean, 1700955 free
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: (133747 frags, 195901 blocks, 2.2%
fragmentation)
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1e:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: /dev/da0s1e:
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: clean, 52326 free
Apr 15 22:07:14 happy-idiot-talk /kernel: (870 frags, 6432 blocks, 0.7%
fragmentation)
I also get a nice transcript of running mergemaster in single user
mode when I do routine updates, or indeed any console output at all.
Cheers,
Matthew
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