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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:32:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Ed Yu <edlyu@yahoo.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to capture bootup messages?
Message-ID:  <20020724023232.65412.qmail@web20703.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020724022136.GH62770@dan.emsphone.com>

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Thanks Dan. I tried it and it does scroll back. Is
there a way to set the number of saved lines? It
doesn't allow me to scroll all the way the the
beginning. Is there a way to set it so that all the
messages can be saved to a file instead?

--- Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 23), Ed Yu said:
> > When the machine boots up, I get whole bunch of
> > messages at console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) Some of it is in
> > dmesg but the rest (with the daemon start info) is
> > lost. Are they saved anywhere? If not, how do it
> put
> > them in a log file so I can read them after the
> bootup
> > process is done. BTW, is there a way to scroll the
> > boot up messages at Ctrl-Alt-F1 console? Page Up
> and
> > Page Down doesn't work.
> 
> Hit scroll-lock first; then you can page up.  
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com


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