dmesg not working on new system

[doug at safeport.com]

Belay my last response about loader.conf. I did not read that what does closely 
enough. Without a serial console, turning all all.log is the best I know how to 
do

On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Chris Maness wrote:

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> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, doug wrote:
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>> A couple of things you can try: turn on the all.log line in syslog.conf; 
>> and, mkae sure syslog.conf and newsyslog.conf match the source tree. If all 
>> that looks okay, do a boot verbose (I forget the syntax). If you are 
>> getting any warning or status messages that could cause this either the 
>> all.log or the boot should show them.
>> 
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> There are no deltas between the two files and there originals from the source 
> tree.  I administer this box via remote shell (ssh).  Is there a way to boot 
> in verbose mode via a remote connection?
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