On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 08:22:17PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 03:10:07PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > We will need a serial console to debug kdump issues. I am not expert > > enough to figure out how to reset graphical console without going > > through the bios. Is there any reliable way to do that. > > Make sure the kdump kernel has graphics drivers - they should be able to > reconfigure the device. Ok, including graphics drivers in initramfs should be doable. But this will still not display the message on consoles if early failures happen during transition to second kernel and drivers are not loaded yet. > Or just pass the framebuffer offset, size, > stride and pixel format to the kdump kernel and have it treat it as an > unaccelerated linear framebuffer. Ok, I will look into this. Thanks for the ideas though. Thanks Vivek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
