On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 11:57:44AM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 04:47:13AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > > I had a major problem that required a fresh install from a current to > > 7.5 stable. > > I did find a mention of a "disklabel partition" searching online. > > I still had it, as expected and just used the n command to restore the > > mount points. > > > > However, as I mentioned in this thread > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=172654509928100&w=4 > > my older dmesg's were also retained which I found in > > /var/run/dmesg.boot. > > The dmesg man page says that some systems can retain previous dmesg's > > after rebooting. I assumed that it was just appending new dmesg to > > dmesg.boot. > > Is there also a spot on the drive that stores older dmesg information? I > > did a fresh install, so this seems like a good explanation. > > Is that correct or is there a different explanation? > > > > The dmesg buffer in memory can hold more then one dmesg. If it is retained > accross reboots depends on the HW. In most cases the memory is not cleared > on warm boots. Only on a cold boot the memory contents are lost. > /var/run/dmesg.boot just holds the contents of this buffer. > > -- > :wq Claudio
That then explains it. I only did warm boots. Thanks. -- Regards, Chris Bennett
