Re: capturing oopses

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:14:08 +1000

On Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:37:36 +0200,
"Helmut Naughton" <naughton@poweronline.net> wrote:
>What different options are there to capture the kernel oops
>messages besides the pen and paper method. Is there for instance
>a method for capturing kernel oopses during boot (happened to me
>one whenever starting init), maybe over a network. I have read the
>docs (mostly ;-) and didn't find any information on such a setup. I
>would be glad to learn more, since that is what i am here for!

Serial console (Documentation/serial-console.txt). Run a null modem to
a second machine and capture it there, even an 8086 running DOS 2 will
do the job. And before you ask, no we cannot save the log somewhere
and pick it up later. There was a recent thread on this and PC's do
not have anywhere safe (disk I/O is not safe in a panic) and reliable
(most BIOS's clear or corrupt memory on boot) to store the log.

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