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Date:      Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:20:11 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To:        Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FBSD4.4  boot -v    Verbose boot messages as the default
Message-ID:  <20011109192011.E4519@twincat.vladsempire.net>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOGEDOCGAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:58PM -0500
References:  <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOGEDOCGAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:58PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
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> How can I change the boot messages default to get the verbose message format all the time as the default in FreeBSD 4.4? 

There's a lot of documentation on the FreeBSD boot process in the man 
pages and handbook.  I would suggest man loader and man loader.conf

The option you are looking for is boot_verbose="YES" in loader.conf

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> Is the boot messages log saved as a file somewhere where it can be edited or viewed?
>  

/var/run/dmesg.boot
man dmesg for exactly what this file is, and isn't.

Josh



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