On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:19:29 +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote:

> Is there a way to log the boot messages - dmesg after booting up doesnt
> show module load failures and they scroll off the screen and I can find
> what they are.

Set rc_logger="YES" in /etc/rc.conf to have the boot sequence logged
to /var/log/rc.log. This is for BL2, BL1 has a similar setting.

It gives this output here

rc boot logging started at Tue Aug  3 17:39:35 2010

 * Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ...
 [ ok ]
 * Loading module fuse ...
 [ ok ]
 * Loading module rfcomm ...
 [ ok ]
 * Loading module kvm-intel ...
 [ ok ]
 * Autoloaded 3 module(s)
...

You can also increase the size of the dmesg ring buffer, which was
discussed on this list last month.


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Neil Bothwick

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