serial kernel console vs. systemd

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 03:56:58PM -0400, 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.

I really need to fix virt-dmesg ...

Rich.

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