On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 06:36:53PM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
| On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Kenneth R Westerback wrote:
| >The dmesg is needed. This looks like the disk/usb stick is not being
| >found by the OS.
|
| I was afraid of that.
|
| Dealing with the first apparent problem, that most of the dmesg scrolls
| off the screen, looks to be easy; a quick look at the source reveals
| that ddb has an apparently undocumented 'dmesg' command.
|
| Actually capturing the dmesg looks to be harder; given that this is a
| store demo system to which I have very limited access I'm not sure I've
| got any better way than hand-writing it all. I've got a couple of ideas
| for easier ways to try, but it will take a few days. Are there any
| parts of the dmesg that are known to be unnecessary for this purpose, so
| I can avoid the work of copying them if I have to fall back to writing
| everything down and retyping it?
Don't write it .. bring a digital camera and take pictures of every
screen. It's tedious but it beats writing (definitely when you're in
a store). Then type in the text from the images and send that.
Another alternative is booting the ramdisk kernel (bsd.rd) and see if
you get some disk device resembling your usb stick out of that. If
you do, try mounting that and storing the dmesg there.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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