-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dan Cowsill wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE > controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel. Now, linux never boots > without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged... Is there any way > to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere? I'd settle for > scrolling up, really. > > Thanks, > Dan >
If it panics on attempting to mount the root file system, then you probably would be able to use the S-PgUp if you give the "rootwait" or "rootdelay=<#>", where "<#>" is a number of seconds. "rootwait" would tell the kernel to wait until it really thinks it can mount the root filesystem before mounting it; "rootdelay=10" would tell the kernel to wait 10 seconds before mounting. Either way, you may be able to scroll up during the delay (I don't remember if it initializes the keyboard driver before or after the root filesystem, it's been a while since I've had to debug that part of startup). - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoJHiAACgkQOypDUo0oQOqqBwCcCuNMy1KMngiOCxqcbW+3rslG W1sAnArIk3TOWHBjgjiIhszH3WKH/VV9 =qy9y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
