Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756548AbXH0MKh (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:10:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756994AbXH0MJy (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:09:54 -0400 Received: from 193-189-87-45.ip.kis.lt ([193.189.87.45]:30962 "EHLO barclay.wilibox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756979AbXH0MJx (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:09:53 -0400 Subject: Re: Pausing kernel boot messages From: Zilvinas Valinskas Reply-To: zilvinas@wilibox.com To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen?= Koch Cc: Esteban Fernandez , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200708271353.22665.hjk@linutronix.de> References: <179e6e720708270421r5f07f9dfp434077f6a106d2d7@mail.gmail.com> <200708271353.22665.hjk@linutronix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:09:50 +0300 Message-Id: <1188216590.5361.27.camel@zv.wilibox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1314 Lines: 32 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 > > - > 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/ - 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/