Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:44:26 +0100 | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Panics need better handling |
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Quote from Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>: > ndiamond@despammed.com wrote: > > > I am not asking for > >help in solving this particular panic, > >I am asking for help in general, in > >getting information displayed when it > >needs to be displayed. > > > > > I have struggled with this from time to time. Wanting to > report a trace, but it is too long for the screen. > > Using a framebuffer console helps a lot. I use 1280x1024 resolution, > and 8x8 characters. The resulting 160x128 console isn't > that fun to _work_ with, but most panics/oopses fit. I rarely > work at the console anyway. If you do, consider making two almost > identical kernels where console font size is the only difference. (The > extra compile takes very little time.) Then use the small-font kernel > when debugging.
On the other hand, if like me you use a text-based console almost exclusively, then the best course of action is probably to buy a real serial terminal, (or several :-) ), and configure one of them as the console. Then you can basically ignore the VGA display completely.
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