Subject: Re: where does time come from?
To: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/25/2002 10:31:42
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
> Ah, no. this is a printf, not a syslog. That has to be because it runs
> before there is even a disk drive mounted to log *to*. inittodr is run
> really early in the life of the machine. You could find this in your
> dmesg but not in /var/log messages. I'd tell you to look in dmesg.boot
> but that file was a post 1.4 invention I believe.

Actually Andrew notes that I'm wrong on this -- on modern machines
syslog will pick up the contents of the message buffer. Still, look at
your dmesg, and see if what is going on is what I think is going on.

Perry