> Just out of curiosity why does sparc64 hold more than 1 boot in the dmesg > buffer?
Some machines do not clear their memory when they reboot. To assist developers debugging the kernel, the kernel does not clear that memory either, and is very careful to let this behaviour exist, if the machine has let it. Then we can see panics and such. > This dmesg shows 3.8 - 4.0 Looks like it is pretty reliable.