Re: Pausing kernel boot messages

[Zilvinas Valinskas <zilvinas@wilibox.com>]

Esteban,

Alternatively, read Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt. Might help
or might not. It depends when system is crashing.

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 13:53 +0200, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote:
> Am Montag 27 August 2007 13:21 schrieb Esteban Fernandez:
> > How do you pause the kernel boot messages ?
> > 
> > ^S, Pause and Scroll lock do nothing and you can't Shift-Page-Up  after a
> > kernel panic.
> 
> These are functions of a shell (like bash), which you haven't got yet during
> kernel boot. You can read the kernel boot messages _after_ your system's up
> using dmesg etc.
> If you can't do that, e.g. because your kernel always hangs during boot, you
> could enable a serial console in your kernel and watch/log your kernel 
> messages with a terminal program running on a different computer.
> 
> Hans
> 
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