On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Torsten Valentin wrote: >> dmesg is the lazy way to get this info, the same info is written to >> /var/log/messages during boot. Are you saying your system is so >> stripped down you don't even log anything? > > Yep. And because the only persistent memory is Flash (32MB, which > quickly dies if you permanently write to it), the whole system runs > inside a RAMDISK only. And there is no terminal or ssh. Modifying the > system means setting up a new system with modified /sbin/init each time.
Would you be able to use TFTP to try booting test kernels off a remote machine? That's how I tend to do it when I'm trying not to write to flash on my routers while I'm building test kernels. You only have to change flags in the bootloader (of course, I have no idea how feasible that is for you, either; when you say there's no terminal, I assume you probably can't do that except through /etc/boot.conf). - Dave
