System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems

Examples—Displaying Device Information

The following dmesg output is displayed from a SPARC based system.


Apr  2 13:26:19 venus genunix: [ID 540533 kern.notice] SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic ...
Apr  2 13:26:19 venus genunix: [ID 943905 kern.notice] Copyright 1983-2003...
Apr  2 13:26:19 venus genunix: [ID 678236 kern.info] Ethernet address ...
Apr  2 13:26:19 venus unix: [ID 389951 kern.info] mem = 65536K (0x4000000)
Apr  2 13:26:19 venus unix: [ID 930857 kern.info] avail mem = 57688064
Apr  2 13:26:19 venus rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = 
Sun Ultra 1 SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz)

The following dmesg output is displayed from an x86 based system.


# dmesg
Dec 17 16:32:10 naboo unix: [ID 930857 kern.info] avail mem = 1037565952
Dec 17 16:32:10 naboo rootnex: [ID 466748 kern.info] root nexus = i86pc
Dec 17 16:32:10 naboo unix: [ID 406534 kern.info] ACPI detected: 2 13 0 0
Dec 17 16:32:10 naboo rootnex: [ID 349649 kern.info] pci1 at root: isa 0x0
Dec 17 16:32:10 naboo genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] pci1 is /pci@1,0
Dec 17 16:32:10 naboo pcplusmp: [ID 637496 kern.info] pcplusmp: ...
Dec 17 16:32:10 naboo pci: [ID 370704 kern.info] PCI-device: ...
Dec 17 16:32:10 naboo genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] cadp1601 ...
Dec 17 16:32:13 naboo scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd5 at cadp1601: ...
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