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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 :- 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 |
