Re: logging on kernel panic

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Hi everybody
> > If a system receives kernel panic during boot, will it be logged somewhere?
> 
> Often not.. especially if it is fatal. Look up netconsole however.

Well your machine's BIOS can still be providing non-volatile sotrage which 
under recent kernels registers itself with 'pstore', and you can get the 
dmesg+panic from there then (provided you have all the necessary bits, 
such as APEI, compiled in and enabled).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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