Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 29 Apr 1995 15:56:18 +0100
From:      Marc van Kempen <wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What I'd *really like* for 2.0.5 
Message-ID:  <199504291456.PAA03554@nietzsche>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Apr 1995 21:48:55 %2B1000." <199504291148.VAA22028@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> >I would vote for just printing what is found by default and 
> >a -v option to give all kinds of debugging information, but
> >then the screen should also freeze after each screen full of
> >debugging info, in the past I had problems with the NCR driver
> >and I had to reboot like 10 to 20 times before I got enough
> >of the messages that were flying by.
> 
> Did you try scrollback?  The default scrollback is only 100
> lines total, but it could be 100000 lines or so while booting
> since the memory is not being used for anything else.
> 

Ofcourse (slaps hands against forehead) ... 
I had this problem with 2.0 which didn't have the 
scrollback buffer yet. If we can make sure to catch all output
this should be sufficient.

Marc.

Marc van Kempen                    wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl

He's dead Jim ..., kick him if you don't believe me.




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199504291456.PAA03554>