diff -ruN initscripts-9.03.40.old/rc.d/rc.sysinit initscripts-9.03.40/rc.d/rc.sysinit
--- initscripts-9.03.40.old/rc.d/rc.sysinit	2014-03-16 22:45:36.000000000 -0700
+++ initscripts-9.03.40/rc.d/rc.sysinit	2014-03-16 22:47:16.000000000 -0700
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@
 # Now that we have all of our basic modules loaded and the kernel going,
 # let's dump the syslog ring somewhere so we can find it later
 [ -f /var/log/dmesg ] && mv -f /var/log/dmesg /var/log/dmesg.old
-dmesg -s 131072 > /var/log/dmesg
+dmesg -n 1 -s 131072 > /var/log/dmesg
 
 # create the crash indicator flag to warn on crashes, offer fsck with timeout
 touch /.autofsck &> /dev/null