> 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.
Have you tried <shift>+<PgUp> ? I have no idea if it will work in that circumtance... Remember that depending how you setup the kernel the IDE devices could be hdX or sdX.