* De: Frode Nordahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-12 ] [ Subjecte: dmesg showing garbage ] > Hello, > > The more strange thing is that it some times also contains console > output from the previous shutdown sequence.
If you reboot and the memory is not cleared, the buffer (stored at a fixed address) may still be intact, and the kernel buffering code will be smart enough to span to the end of the buffer, and append (circularly) there. -- Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message