cool that worked.  it's in http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/misc/ , i
see it now.  i was looking int the i386 specific FAQ, because just about
every other platform has serial console support.

-lava

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Michael K. Sanders wrote:

> "Brian A. Seklecki" writes:
> >...is there anyway to re-read dmesg from the install floppies after the
> >sysinst has started?  from the emergency shell, i don't see a copy in
> >/var/run/dmesg.boot or anything in userland to permit re-reading, but i
> >imagine there's an obvious trick i'm missing.
>
> /kern/msgbuf should be available, IIRC.
>
> :: Mike ::
>

--Brian

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