pausing boot process

[J. W. Ballantine]

Thanks, but I don't get to the boot prompt, it dumps core and then
goes to reboot mode.

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>  Date:  Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:28:05 -0500
>  To:  "'J. W. Ballantine'" <jwb at homer.att.com>, <freebsd-questions at freebsd.or
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>  From:  "Steve Bertrand" <iaccounts at ibctech.ca>
>  Subject:  RE: pausing boot process
>
>  
>  > I've started to get an error during the boot process that 
>  > scrolls off the screen so rapidly that I don't have a change 
>  > to read it.
>  > 
>  > Is there someway to pause the scrolling/process so the error 
>  > is read-able??
>  
>  Well, as opposed to stopping it, if you wait until the login prompt, you
>  can press the 'Scroll Lock' key on the keyboard and use the arrow keys
>  to scroll back up to review the entire boot output. Simply press the
>  scroll lock again to resume operations.
>  
>  Regards,
>  
>  Steve
>  
>  > 
>  > Thanks for any hints.
>  > 
>  > Jim Ballantine
>  > 
>  > 
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