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SubjectRe: logging on kernel panic
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Hi everybody
> > If a system receives kernel panic during boot, will it be logged somewhere?
>
> Often not.. especially if it is fatal. Look up netconsole however.

Well your machine's BIOS can still be providing non-volatile sotrage which
under recent kernels registers itself with 'pstore', and you can get the
dmesg+panic from there then (provided you have all the necessary bits,
such as APEI, compiled in and enabled).

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs



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