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Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2001 01:33:30 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>
To:        Jon Parise <jon@csh.rit.edu>
Cc:        Seth Kingsley <sethk@meowfishies.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot -v capture
Message-ID:  <20011029013329.D49388@cicely8.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20011028160100.A23305@csh.rit.edu>
References:  <20011028140808.C19580@csh.rit.edu> <20011028123934.C40700@fluff.meowfishies.com> <20011028160100.A23305@csh.rit.edu>

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On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 04:01:00PM -0500, Jon Parise wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:39:34PM -0800, Seth Kingsley wrote:
> 
> > > Can anyone suggest a means by which to capture the 'boot -v'
> > > output without using a serial console?
> > 
> > dmesg(8), so long as it doesn't overrun the buffer.
> > 
> > -current is also writing boot messages to syslog presumably with the
> > facility of kern.*.
> 
> Ah, I should have been more specific.
> 
> The machine is unable to boot, so I need to the 'boot -v' output
> to diagnose that problem first.  It's a chicken-and-egg scenario.

If you have an IR interface which you can set to IRDA1 FreeBSD will
see it a normal seriel interface.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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