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