Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268162AbUI2IIU (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:08:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268255AbUI2IIU (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:08:20 -0400 Received: from witte.sonytel.be ([80.88.33.193]:63163 "EHLO witte.sonytel.be") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268162AbUI2IIS (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 04:08:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:08:11 +0200 (MEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Gene Heskett cc: Linux Kernel Development Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 In-Reply-To: <200409280701.06932.gene.heskett@verizon.net> Message-ID: References: <20040926181021.2e1b3fe4.akpm@osdl.org> <200409280626.50167.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20040928103324.GA21050@elte.hu> <200409280701.06932.gene.heskett@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1196 Lines: 29 On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 28 September 2004 06:33, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >(If such a early-bootup lockup happens in the future then you sure > > could temporarily unplug the ups serial connection and use that as > > the serial console - for the narrow and temporary purpose of > > debugging that boot-time hang.) > > That would I assume need a null modem cable, and what do I run on the > firewall? Minicom? Or is there something better that can just grab > and log without being interactive? Its a rh7.3 box with a 2.4.18 era > kernel. I'd update that, but its not broken. :) I hate minicom. But cu works fine! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/