strange verbose boot log entry

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jul 15), Alexander Best said:
> just booted r195677 (8.0-BETA1) with
> 
> verbose_loading="YES"
> boot_verbose="YES"
> 
> and noticed this strange /var/log/messages entry:
> 
> Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> 
> Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: 8) <----------
> 
> Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: MCFG 0x7fee7e80 0003C (v1 GBT    GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101)
> Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: APIC 0x7fee7d00 00084 (v1 GBT    GBTUACPI 42302E31 GBTU 01010101)
> Jul 15 21:45:05 otaku kernel: ACPI: SSDT 0x7fee8520 003AB (v1  PmRef    CpuPm 00003000 INTL 20040311)
> 
> comments?

Your kernel message buffer is too small to store the entire verbose boot
sequence in memory before syslog can extract it.  It's a circular buffer, so
new entries overwrite the oldest ones.  The line just before the "ACPI:
MCFG" line was probably another ACPI line that happened to end in 8 and a
close-paren.  Adding this to your kernel and rebuilding should let you see
the entire boot output.  If something's still truncated, double it and try
again.

options         MSGBUF_SIZE=65536

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com