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Commit e1f1def6 authored by Dave Jones's avatar Dave Jones Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGA 



Something I've found handy countless times when users do this..

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 1d193f4f

Documentation/oops-tracing.txt

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@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- 
    has restarted.  Messy but it is the only option if you have not

    planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of

    the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than

    nothing.

    nothing.  If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you

    may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791)

    will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb,

    so won't help for 'early' oopses)



(2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),

    run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there