.1861 Oops enabling eth0/eth1?

[Russell Coker]

On Friday 20 January 2006 07:15, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> The usual trick for capturing these is to boot in a higher console
> resolution, with vga=791 for example (or vga=1 if your monitor doesn't
> like 791)

What about netdump?  I think it's safe to assume that the vast majority of 
people on this list aren't testing rawhide on their only computer, so netdump 
should be a good option for capturing the log as well as a dump of kernel 
memory.  Even on 10baseT netdump is fast enough to not be excessively painful 
if you only have 256M of RAM, on 100baseT it should be fast enough for any 
machine that you are likely to test rawhide on (not sure if the simple UDP 
protocol used will benefit much from Gig-E).

Incidentally as netdump is started late in the boot process there are a number 
of things it won't deal with, such as an Oops in the initrd.  Does anyone 
have a howto on configuring an initrd with netdump support?

Another option of course is a serial console.  It's a pity that they are 
manufacturing machines with no PC serial port nowadays (a serial port on a 
laptop docking-bay may not work and a USB serial port isn't going to work).

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