Re: strange verbose boot log entry

thanks for the hint. that kernel option solved the problem.

alex

Dan Nelson schrieb am 2009-07-15:
> 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