How to capture console messages during boot?

[Michael Sierchio]

cat /var/run/dmesg.boot




On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 7:59 PM, David Christensen <
dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:

> freebsd-questions:
>
> I am attempting to build a graphical workstation using:
>
> toor at freebsd:/root # freebsd-version
> 11.0-RELEASE-p7
>
> toor at freebsd:/root # uname -a
> FreeBSD freebsd 11.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 #0 r306420: Thu
> Sep 29 03:40:55 UTC 2016 root at releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
>
> toor at freebsd:/root # pkg info xorg | head -n 1
> xorg-7.7_2
>
> toor at freebsd:/root # pkg info xfce | head -n 1
> xfce-4.12_1
>
>
> As I add software and adjust configuration settings, invariably I create
> or encounter issues.  Some of these generate warnings/ errors on the
> console when the system boots.  I'd like to capture console messages during
> boot, so that I can review them and fix things.
>
>
> How?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> David
>
>
> p.s. STFW has yielded outdated and/or unsatisfactory solutions, including:
>
>         dmesg
>         /var/log/messages
>         Scroll Lock key and scrollback buffer
>
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