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| author | Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> | 2005-11-15 00:09:24 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-11-15 08:59:20 -0800 |
| commit | e1f1def6ef3f0c71d0df302c3759f6937adaf9ae (patch) | |
| tree | 794c56b9e279e95d6cf5e132cff60746568b77d9 /Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | |
| parent | 1d193f4f112b9d8855ba1339fa784ee95f25b9c7 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGA
Something I've found handy countless times when users do this..
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 9f30ac6ca47b..05960f8a748e 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than - nothing. + nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you + may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791) + will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb, + so won't help for 'early' oopses) (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there |