Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:52:29 -0500 | | From | Dave Jones <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos |
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On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:02:57PM -0800, Linux Kernel wrote: > tree 849707fda27c41466eabae0119d6386826ddb7dc > parent 113fab1386f0093602d9f48b424b945cafd3db23 > author Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 08:07:40 -0800 > committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:14:17 -0800 > > [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention digital photos > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Something I've found handy countless times when users do this..
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
--- linus/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt~ 2005-11-14 16:47:54.000000000 -0500 +++ linus/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt 2005-11-14 16:51:02.000000000 -0500 @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than - nothing. + nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you + may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791) + will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb, + so won't help for 'early' oopses) (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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