dmesg [OPTIONEN]
Hier noch ein Beispiel für die vom Kernel gelieferten Meldungen über den Startvorgang.
root@defiant:/ > dmesg Linux version 2.2.14 (root@defiant) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024) #2 Wed Jul 26 20:49:06 MEST 2000 Detected 365818579 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 730.73 BogoMIPS Memory: 62800k/65472k available (1280k kernel code, 412k reserved, 936k data, 44k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 0a Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0200 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 65536 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0f (Driver version 1.12) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 loop: registered device at major 7 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled ide0: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) hda: IBM-DBCA-204860, ATA DISK drive hdc: CD-224E, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: IBM-DBCA-204860, 4645MB w/420kB Cache, CHS=592/255/63 hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed Adding Swap: 128516k swap-space (priority -1) Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A