Hi Paul, Paul Gear wrote:
> Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks for the reply - i've actually decommissioned this machine > recently. It was upgraded to lenny after i submitted the bug, and the > same things continued to happen on the lenny Xen vs. normal kernels. > > It is fully working and sitting on my test bench, so i can test any > kernel version you like. But whatever happens i'll need to install a > new OS on it. If you can point me to any good instructions for > non-kernel-hackers, i can probably even get a serial console sorted out. Thanks. For a serial console you would need a null modem cable and another machine with a serial port. For netconsole you just need to be lucky enough to have a panic after the NIC has been initialized (rather than in very early boot). See [1], [2], and [3] to get started. For the machine slurping logs over a serial console, step 3 at [4] seems to get the steps roughly right (i.e., launch minicom and make its settings match those you gave linux). [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/serial-console.txt [2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt [3] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/ [4] http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Serial/serial-console.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110731030816.GE9594@elie
