On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Dan Cowsill <danthe...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I've been trying to get to the bottom of my recent troubles with my IDE
> controller working with the 2.6.28 kernel.  Now, linux never boots
> without a kernel panic, so dmesg never gets logged...  Is there any way
> to have the kernel dump the boot log somewhere?  I'd settle for
> scrolling up, really.
>

If you have a serial port, you can enable serial console in the kernel
config, and boot with a "console=ttyS0" kernel parameter, to see all the
output on a serially attached (via null modem cable or adapter) computer...

-James

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