Re: Capturing All Kernel Messages

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On 1/12/06, Brian D. McGrew <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I'm trying to build a new special kernel and of course, as Murphy
> says, it'll blow up the first 1,000 times!  I need to capture the boot
> messages because I'm getting a lot of errors scrolling by before the
> kernel panics and I'm toast and have to revert back to my old kernel.
> Once I revert back to my old kernel, all my previous messages are lost
> and dmesg does me no good!
>
> How can I make the kernel output to a file or some other means as soon
> as it starts loading so I can capture this stuff?
>

serial console, net console or console on line printer.
Check the Documentation/ subdir in the kernel source for the details.

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