A Dilluns 25 Maig 2009, Douglas A. Tutty va escriure: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 08:16:14PM +0200, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > > first of all sorry because the mails is off topic: it's not about the > > amd64 port of debian. But, I have a problem with a kernel, and maybe some > > of the clever minds here could help me, because nobody in my LUG have > > solved it. > > > > In one of my servers, running lenny, with a stock xen kernel, the box > > crashes aleatory. There's an open bug [1] > > > > My question is how can I obtain the information from a console when the > > kernel crash? Because there's nothing on the kern.log, syslog. > > The best way is to use a serial console. Hook up a null-modem serial > cable from the problem box to a working box. Run minicom on the working > box, turn on logging in minicom, boot the problem box and wait for the > crash.
ok ... I didn't want that solution ... but I'm afraid that it's the only one ... > Here's my /boot/grub/menu.lst that shows how to set it up. Grub will > start with something like "press a key to continue" so that it knows > whether you're at the serial console or the main (VGA) console, and > thend presents the usual menu. Thanks a lot. Tomorrow I will find a serial cable .... I hope that the Poweredge server has serial console... But, if you have serial console, do you have vga? [...] > > I hope this helps. Sure!! thanks a lot. Regards, Leo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
