stop the boot process

[ccc]

hi

Howto stop the boot (startup) process from freeBSD 7.0 using keyboard to see all warning messages
on the screen?

btw. I know dmesg or /var/log/messages after restart, but this is not my question.

 

[aragon]

Not sure how to stop it, but if you enable scroll lock you can scroll up and down in the buffer with the direction keys and/or pageup/pagedown. Disable scroll lock when you're done.

 

[lme@]

After the kernel is loaded and all hardware is probed, you can hit ctrl+c to cancel the load of an rc script.

 

[ccc]

Not sure how to stop it, but if you enable scroll lock you can scroll up and down in the buffer with the direction keys and/or pageup/pagedown. Disable scroll lock when you're done.

thx, but howto enable scroll lock?

 

[SirDice]

thx, but howto enable scroll lock?

Press the scroll lock key on your keyboard.

 

[ccc]

Thx

 

[SeanC]

hi
Howto stop the boot (startup) process from freeBSD 7.0 using keyboard to see all warning messages
on the screen?

Just out of curiosity: Why?

 

[ccc]

Just out of curiosity: Why?

I was just wondering, on linux you can use ctrl-s to pause the screen during boot and with ctrl-q to resume.

 

[phoenix]

That's the same as using the Scroll Lock key. It pauses the output of the console framebuffer so you can scroll up and down. It doesn't actually pause the boot process (things are still chugging along in the background).

 

[hedwards]

I was just wondering, on linux you can use ctrl-s to pause the screen during boot and with ctrl-q to resume.

I'm not really up on Linux, but you can find that information in /var/log/dmesg.today which is the information from the beginning while the kernel is loading and probing.

Typing dmesg will generally get you the most recent system messages, all the other ones should be readily gotten when you boot up via scroll lock.