On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 11:12 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Seems I've asked this before, but I'll be darned if I can find the > answer somewhere in my archives. I need to capture a kernel OOPS > somehow. I've got a server that seems to be trigger happy and locking > up/crashing once every 24 hours or so. The unfortunate thing is that > I'm not there when it happens to look on the monitor and see if I can > discern anything from there (usually one of the other guys come in > before me and they simply hit the reset button because they don't > understand the gibberish on screen anyway.) So, I need to figure out a > way to capture that OOPS. Since it's not send to syslog, I can't send > it to another machine for logging. What other methods are there of > doing this? This machine doesn't have a serial link that I can link up > to another either. So, anyone? > > - Simple. - Connect the machine to another machine using a NULL serial console. - Add the following parameters to your grub: console=ttyS0 console=ttyS0,57600n8 (Where ttyS0 is serial0, 57600 is speed and n8 is 8 bits, no parity) - Run cu [1, uucp] or minicom and log all the output. - Gilboa
