Subject: Re: dmesg output
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Andrew Brown <codewarrior@daemon.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/23/1997 11:52:14
> From: Curt Sampson
>
>>On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Andrew Brown wrote:
>>
>> then i looked at dmesg output...it still seems to have a bunch of
>> stuff from the last time the machine was booted.  including the
>> panic message.
>> where does it save it?
>
>In a 4K buffer at the top of memory. If that doesn't get overwritten
>by a power-cycle or memory tests or something like that, it will
>be preserved across boots.

oh...cool!  but what happened to syslogd?  why did it lose?

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