Re: [Bug #13941] x86 Geode issue

From: Martin-Ãric Racine
Date: Fri Sep 11 2009 - 08:38:15 EST


2009/8/18 Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:02:34AM +0300, Martin-Ãric Racine wrote:
> (...)
>> > it's still a JPG - posting the transcribed oops in email text would
>> > certainly help more folks looking over it.
>> >
>> > (painful i know ...)
>>
>> I welcome suggestions for proper OCR software that can extract the
>> text displayed therein. Manually transcribing it is too error-prone to
>> even try.
>
> Well, there are less risks of errors retyping by hand than passing via
> an OCR. At least *you* know that everything you see are hex numbers, the
> OCR does not. Eventhough it's quite annoying to do that by hand, it
> generally takes less than 5 minutes to retype an oops, which is not that
> much. Of course, the serial cable to another machine to get a panic dump
> is the easiest solution ;-)

That would be assuming that a serial console is available. This is
not the case here. No legacy port whatsoever.

Martin-Ãric
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