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From: James Ausmus <james.ausmus@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 17:20:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b79f23070905111720y7618b11dy9cd5a46b9021edfd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A08BFF7.4060804@gmail.com>

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On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dan Cowsill <danthehat@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE
> controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel.  Now, linux never boots
> without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged...  Is there any way
> to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere?  I'd settle for
> scrolling up, really.
>

If you have a serial port, you can enable serial console in the kernel
config, and boot with a "console=ttyS0" kernel parameter, to see all the
output on a serially attached (via null modem cable or adapter) computer...

-James

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-12  0:16 [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot? Dan Cowsill
2009-05-12  0:20 ` James Ausmus [this message]
2009-05-12  0:28   ` Dan Cowsill
2009-05-12  8:09     ` Peter Humphrey
2009-05-12  8:29       ` Dale
2009-05-12 15:20         ` Dan Cowsill
2009-05-12 23:28   ` David Relson
2009-05-12  0:31 ` Adam Carter
2009-05-12  0:33   ` Dan Cowsill
2009-05-12  1:42     ` Valmor de Almeida
2009-05-12  6:58 ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-05-12  7:17 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Iliev

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