>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com> writes:

    Andrew> Er, off topic but...
    Andrew> How do you manage to reboot the TiBook without loosing the
    Andrew> message buf?

No reboot preserving of msgbuf, but netbooting; so the normal boot
disk ('/dev/wd0a') isn't touched at all during booting. I can save
dmesg over the nfs mounted root-device. Even when trying to touch the
disk which fails at the moment there is no system hang. Quite good...

Markus.