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diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index c563842ed805..05960f8a748e 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | |||
| @@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- | |||
| 30 | 30 | ||
| 31 | (1) Hand copy the text from the screen and type it in after the machine | 31 | (1) Hand copy the text from the screen and type it in after the machine |
| 32 | has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not | 32 | has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not |
| 33 | planned for a crash. | 33 | planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of |
| 34 | the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than | ||
| 35 | nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you | ||
| 36 | may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791) | ||
| 37 | will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb, | ||
| 38 | so won't help for 'early' oopses) | ||
| 34 | 39 | ||
| 35 | (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), | 40 | (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), |
| 36 | run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there | 41 | run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there |