Subject: Re: dmesg on install floppies?
To: Michael K. Sanders <msanders@confusion.net>
From: Scott Hallock <scott@hallocks.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/21/2002 09:09:27
> "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.

I was just able to do dmesg | more on a 1.5.2 floppy boot.  There were lots
of null characters at the top, but the dmesg was in there.

Scott