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diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 9f30ac6ca47b..05960f8a748e 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt | |||
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- | |||
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. Alternatively, you can take a picture of | 33 | planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of |
34 | the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than | 34 | the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than |
35 | nothing. | 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) | ||
36 | 39 | ||
37 | (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), | 40 | (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), |
38 | 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 |