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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, George Bonser wrote:
> Is there any way to stop the console scrolling during boot? My reason
> for this is I am trying to troubleshoot a boot problem with
> 2.4.18-pre7 and I would like to give a more useful report than "it
> won't boot" but the screen outputs information every few seconds and I
> can't "freeze" the display so I can copy down the initial error(s).
>
> This is an Intel unit using the standard console (not serial console).
> pre7 will not boot but pre6 boots every time.
On Amiga (m68k and PPC) we have a `debug=mem' option that will write all kernel
messages to a 256 KiB block (marked with a magic number) of Chip RAM. If the
system crashes early, you can reboot into AmigaOS and run a special utility
that finds the 256 KiB block (Chip RAM is not completely erased on reboot) and
extracts the messages.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
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