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Date:      Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:03:17 -0400
From:      Adam McDougall <mcdouga9@egr.msu.edu>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: where's the full copy of dmesg(8)?
Message-ID:  <53378975.1000905@egr.msu.edu>
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On 03/29/2014 21:37, Chris H wrote:
> Greetings,
>  I'm testing on 9.2-STABLE, and was experimenting on an AMD sempron
> (140). Booting from the boot-only, or DVD-1 DVD's doesn't emit the
> entire dmesg(8) output. Building, and installing a custom kernel also
> didn't provide the full dmesg(8) output.
> Specifically; it omits the top N lines (N = as yet, undetermined Number).
> I have no idea why, or how to correct this. I'm pretty confident
> the processor, and motherboard (MSI) are not too new for FreeBSD.

I am almost certain you want to increase kern.msgbufsize at the boot
loader before booting.

% sysctl -d kern.msgbufsize
kern.msgbufsize: Size of the kernel message buffer




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