>
> > > However, the only thing running before main() is init386 itself, which
> > > only calls printf in certain debugging modes.
> >
> > Where do the first of these messages come from - they appear on the
> > console in green, but are missing from dmesg (which starts with the
> > kernel id).  Would they still appear if it were removed?
>
> Could we do something like linux does wrt this? That is, store console
> messages in a buffer until the console driven is initialized, and then print
> them at once.
>
especially useful if it crash before putting at once...