Re: pausing boot process
J. W. Ballantine wrote: Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? No. After the system boots, log in as, or su to, root, and invoke dmesg to view kernel messages. -- James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jamesbailie.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: pausing boot process
I've started to get an error during the boot process that scrolls off the screen so rapidly that I don't have a change to read it. Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? Well, as opposed to stopping it, if you wait until the login prompt, you can press the 'Scroll Lock' key on the keyboard and use the arrow keys to scroll back up to review the entire boot output. Simply press the scroll lock again to resume operations. Regards, Steve Thanks for any hints. Jim Ballantine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pausing boot process
James Bailie wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? No. After the system boots, log in as, or su to, root, and invoke dmesg to view kernel messages. Or you can press scroll lock and page up and down. Eoghan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pausing boot process
Thanks, but I don't get to the boot prompt, it dumps core and then goes to reboot mode. -- In Response to your message - Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:28:05 -0500 To: 'J. W. Ballantine' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] g From: Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: pausing boot process I've started to get an error during the boot process that scrolls off the screen so rapidly that I don't have a change to read it. Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? Well, as opposed to stopping it, if you wait until the login prompt, you can press the 'Scroll Lock' key on the keyboard and use the arrow keys to scroll back up to review the entire boot output. Simply press the scroll lock again to resume operations. Regards, Steve Thanks for any hints. Jim Ballantine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pausing boot process
On Nov 17, 2005, at 10:27 AM, James Bailie wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? No. After the system boots, log in as, or su to, root, and invoke dmesg to view kernel messages. You're incorrect. You can pause this screen, and even scroll up/ down, by pressing the Scroll Lock key. When you're done, press Scroll Lock again to continue. - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks http://www.secure-computing.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pausing boot process
On 11/17/05, Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 17, 2005, at 10:27 AM, James Bailie wrote: J. W. Ballantine wrote: Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error is read-able?? No. After the system boots, log in as, or su to, root, and invoke dmesg to view kernel messages. You're incorrect. You can pause this screen, and even scroll up/ down, by pressing the Scroll Lock key. When you're done, press Scroll Lock again to continue. Scroll lock only starts working after the kernel is done loading. You can't interrupt the kernel load with scroll lock (at least, you couldn't with 5.4-STABLE and before, I can't state for certain that you can't with 6.0) It may be possible to extract that information from the core dump it makes. Not sure where it would be stored, but strings may help you find it (could take a while to sift through the dump tho). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
