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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:32:29 -0700
From:      David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: operation not permitted on entropy file
Message-ID:  <20140812023229.GB84770@home.parts-unknown.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140811183912.ef0f20a6.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 06:39:12PM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
>=20
> After being done in single user mode, type "exit" to
> continue booting to multi user mode. Then press Ctrl+Alt+PF2
> and login with your user name and password - in text mode.
> Use the editor of choice to create a capture file, for
> example
>=20
> 	% ee /tmp/fsck.txt
>=20
> Then press Alt+F1 to see the virtual console where the
> output of the booting process has been written to. Press
> Scroll Lock, then use the arrow keys to scroll up to where
> fsck wrote its messages. Select the first 25 lines with
> the left mouse button, switch over to Alt+PF2 (editor)
> and paste the text with the middle mouse button. Then
> return to Alt+PF1, scroll down, and capture the next
> portion of the text, back to Alt+PF2, paste - until you
> have reached the "exit" command. Now save the file and
> send the text to the mailing list.

Oh, so scroll lock is the secret to making this work? I had no idea.

Wouldn't the copy and paste operation require moused? I have an issue
here because I haven't figured out how to get moused to recognize my
USB mouse (which is strange: it does this just fine on my notebook).

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David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org>
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