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Date:      Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:15:22 +0100
From:      John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: _bootverbose: How to enable it
Message-ID:  <csS8OWqecpFwSSccby%2BIA7NUds%2BS@4ax.com>

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Salvo Bartolotta wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
>On 9/11/00, 2:59:05 PM, "bsdnewbie bsdnewbie" <bsdnewbie@hotmail.com>=20
>wrote regarding _bootverbose: How to enable it:
>
>
>> I want to enable the variable "bootverbose" to trace the system boot
>> sequence, but I do not know how to do!

>Hello Bsdnewbie,
>
>I am not quite sure I have fully understood what you are looking for;=20
>however, you may wish to read boot(8) and its options -- e.g. -v.
>

If you press space at the 10 sec. countdown when the box boots up,
and then type boot -v you get a verbose dmesg.

I usually save this to a file with dmesg > dmesg.verbose.txt for
future reference. (after logging on)

HTH.
John.


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