On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, David Friggens wrote:

> > just use the dmesg before it duplicates itself?  or do i have something
> > misconfigured?
>
> $ man dmesg
> ...
> FILES
>      /var/run/dmesg.boot  copy of dmesg at the time of last boot.
>
> dmesg displays the contents of dmesg.boot to the screen and then you're piping
> it to more, which displays it on the screen as well :-)

That doesn't make any sense.

It sounds like Shawn has rebooted without powering down. On most
machines, a "warm start" doesn't do a memory test, so the contents of
memory (particularly, the message buffer) remain between reboots. In
this case, you're actually looking at two seperate boots, which you
can see clearly if you boot the second time from a different kernel.

Frederick