Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756995AbXH0MOH (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:14:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753475AbXH0MNz (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:13:55 -0400 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134]:43073 "EHLO mail.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306AbXH0MNy convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:13:54 -0400 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Koch?= Organization: Linutronix To: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Pausing kernel boot messages Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:13:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: "Esteban Fernandez" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <179e6e720708270421r5f07f9dfp434077f6a106d2d7@mail.gmail.com> <200708271353.22665.hjk@linutronix.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708271413.51368.hjk@linutronix.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 22 Am Montag 27 August 2007 13:58 schrieb Andreas Schwab: > Hans-J?rgen Koch writes: > > > 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), > > Definitely not. The shell is not a console driver, it only uses it. Right, I wasn't precise. But it's still possible that you don't have your keyboard available during early parts of the boot process. 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/