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Old 5th April 2013
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I understand the FAQs at openbsd.org address means of recording dmesg; and one bugs administrator commented that an USB Section may be appropriate.
I am not sure what you mean by this but I believe that advice from bugs@openbsd.org was to save the dmesg to a usb thumb drive. If enough of the Operating system loaded you should see the thumb drive show up in the dmesg. If you have one sata hard drive it typically is /dev/sd0 and your usb thumb drive then is the second one recognized as /dev/sd1.

If the usb thumb drive is msdos (aka vfat in linux) then you mount it as
Code:
mount -t msdos /dev/sd1i /mnt
Once mounted copy your dmesg to /mnt
Code:
dmesg > /mnt/dmesg.txt
Sometimes the hardware is so foreign to OpenBSD that the only way to capture the dmesg is use a serial cable as described here
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