Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Daniel Iliev <daniel.iliev@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot?
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 07:17:19
Message-Id: 20090512101703.133fb552@ilievnet.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Capture dmesg output on boot? by Dan Cowsill
1 On Mon, 11 May 2009 20:16:55 -0400
2 Dan Cowsill <danthehat@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Hello list,
5 >
6 > I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my
7 > IDE controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots
8 > without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any
9 > way to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere? I'd settle for
10 > scrolling up, really.
11 >
12 > Thanks,
13 > Dan
14 >
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16
17 Add "panic=X" to your kernel parameters and after panic it will wait for
18 X seconds before rebooting.
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22 Best regards,
23 Daniel