I'm actually running amd64 (on an intel D945GTP motherboard), but
there's way more traffic here, and this happens when running i386 as
well ...

I only get a fraction of my dmesg stored in the message buffer.  The
rest of it looks
like this:

M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^?M^

I have had this happen before after a warm boot, but this happens to me
regardless.  Is there any way to prevent this from happening? I'd like to
be able to read the message buffer.

Regards,

--Blair

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