You can use a serial console. See Documentation/serial-console.txt On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 16:56, Mark Feldman wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed a 2.4.20 kernel.org kernel and -ac patches on top of a > RH8 system, and had lots of trouble getting the IDE config right. It > was compiling, but could never find the root disk and kept panicing. > Finally got it running, but at the time, all the console messages at > boot time would scroll off the screen and of course not get saved to > /var/log/messages. > > For future use, is there any way I can get a look at console messages > that scroll away when the system panic's before it starts enough to be > able to put them into messages? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
