Re: dmesg aquisition question

[Greg Thomas <getbsd_(_at_)_sbcglobal_(_dot_)_net>]

On Tuesday, Jan 21, 2003, at 09:24 US/Pacific, Dietlein, Charles wrote:

> I am attempting to install 3.2 on a box I recently aquired.
>
> floppy32.fs panics before getting to the end of the dmesg, so I can't
> exactly type pipe 'dmesg' to a file.  Since the standard "The operating
> system has halted.  Press any key to reboot." message appears, I can't 
> see
> how to get the dmesg (other than typing the last third of it that is 
> on the
> screen).
>
> So my question is this (obviously): how do I get the dmesg?  I've 
> searched
> Google and the archives, but to no avail.

I believe you're looking for 
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq7.html#SerCon.  You can make an install 
floppy that boots to a serial console, but I've had no problems just 
blindly typing in "set tty com0" at the boot prompt for troubleshooting 
purposes.  Instructions for the boot floppy are in the archives.

Greg