From: Dave Jones Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 08:09:24 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGA X-Git-Tag: v2.6.15-rc2~80 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e1f1def6ef3f0c71d0df302c3759f6937adaf9ae;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGA Something I've found handy countless times when users do this.. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 9f30ac6ca4..05960f8a74 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than - nothing. + nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you + may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791) + will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb, + so won't help for 'early' oopses) (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there