From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 11 7: 5:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4200537B425 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 07:05:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from twincat.vladsempire.net (hutch-627.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.155]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECEEB322 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 09:05:27 -0600 (CST) Received: by twincat.vladsempire.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0005539D0; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:20:11 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:20:11 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: FBSD4.4 boot -v Verbose boot messages as the default Message-ID: <20011109192011.E4519@twincat.vladsempire.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:58PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 06:27:58PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote: > > 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 > > 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message