Re: 4.0.1 -> 5.0

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article 
<ab7b49bc0905011832o450082a9oe7ff3b5b0cf265d5%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Neal Hogan  <nealhogan%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Christos Zoulas 
><christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
>> In article 
>> <ab7b49bc0905011420n7ec2e6e4w998f640b9c4c813e%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
>> Neal Hogan  <nealhogan%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>This is my first time upgrading a netBSD system. I've had 4.0.1 on it
>>>for a while and it's a pretty old laptop (mid 90's) and,
>>>unsurprisingly,  pretty slow.  I'm working through
>>>http://www.netbsd.org/docs/current/#installing227 and booting the new
>>>GENERIC i386 kernel is taking . . . well . . . forever. I realize that
>>>my machine is slow and am accounting for that, but the "building
>>>databases" part of the boot took over night and "clearing /tmp" seems
>>>to be taking about as long. The system is minimum . . . base, system
>>>comp.
>>
>> Something is wrong with the new kernel, perhaps time related or interrupts.
>>
>> Can you give us a dmesg output?
>
>I'd be happy to.
>
>Is there a way to get one without it fully booting? I'm looking at
>possibilities within single-user mode, but if you could help in the
>meantime, that would be great.

dmesg in single user mode?

christos