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    SubjectRe: Linux console at boot
    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

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    Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

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    -- Linus Torvalds

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