Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 19:59:01 -0800 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to capture console messages during boot? Message-ID: <f71714ee-60b9-5f1a-ebed-85c2105e6199@holgerdanske.com>
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freebsd-questions: I am attempting to build a graphical workstation using: toor@freebsd:/root # freebsd-version 11.0-RELEASE-p7 toor@freebsd:/root # uname -a FreeBSD freebsd 11.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 #0 r306420: Thu Sep 29 03:40:55 UTC 2016 root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 toor@freebsd:/root # pkg info xorg | head -n 1 xorg-7.7_2 toor@freebsd:/root # pkg info xfce | head -n 1 xfce-4.12_1 As I add software and adjust configuration settings, invariably I create or encounter issues. Some of these generate warnings/ errors on the console when the system boots. I'd like to capture console messages during boot, so that I can review them and fix things. How? TIA, David p.s. STFW has yielded outdated and/or unsatisfactory solutions, including: dmesg /var/log/messages Scroll Lock key and scrollback buffer
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