The following reply was made to PR port-i386/35507; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: port-i386-maintainer@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/35507: dmesg garbled / corrupted
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:03:59 +0100

 On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:10:00AM +0000, thomas.feddersen@t-online.de wrote:
 > "/var/run/dmesg.boot" is garbled (continous "M^?M^?") at the beginning
 > and at the end, although the messages run legibly over the console
 > screen at boot time. 
 
 Please see if this commit:
 
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2007/01/06/0050.html
 
 fixes your problem.
 
 You could try a newer kernel from autobuilds.