Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 09:52:52 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Linux console at boot |
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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
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