Re: Pausing kernel boot messages

[Hans-Jürgen Koch]

Am Montag 27 August 2007 13:58 schrieb Andreas Schwab:
> Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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