On 9/04/2010 12:36 PM, Jonathan Woithe wrote: > Hi Jeff > >> A complete dmesg is definitely useful. > > It's at the end of my previous post. > >> Posting one from the failing kernel would be preferred, though. > > Any ideas as to how I can capture it? Since the SATA disc interfaces stop > working long before they are mounted none of the early boot messages make it > to disc. All the interesting bits are therefore scrolled into the bit > bucket. > > A serial console might be doable (is there documentation about how to set > one up?) but that would take some time to arrange - I'm only physically at > the machine in question sporadically and I'd have to rustle up another PC > ready for my next visit. It could be done, but might take some time. Netconsole is the easiest way to get dmesg when disks aren't working - see Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt for details on how to set it up. -- James Andrewartha -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
