serial kernel console vs. systemd

[Josh Stone]

On 05/19/2011 12:56 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Josh Stone (jistone at redhat.com) said: 
>>> Anyway, if kmsg msgs are lost for you this probably happens inside of
>>> ply or something related, but not systemd.
>>
>> Is "ply" part of (or short for) plymouth?  I took rhgb out of my command
>> line, and it's giving me a lot more on serial now.  I don't remember
>> that being necessary before, but I could be mistaken.  But I still don't
>> get anything on a hard crash.  Any idea where else I could look to
>> improve this?
> 
> You can set the console loglevel differently with 'dmesg -n<number>'.
> Outside of that, if you get normal kernel messages but not messages on
> hard crashes, that may just mean the kernel died before it got a chance to
> log - in that case, there's not a lot you can do.

Ok.  I'm messing with experimental patches, so it might just be that
bad.  Thanks for the tip.

Josh