Loging question regarding: Oopses with kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5

[Mel]

Kimmo Koivisto wrote:

> I'm having strange problems, kernel oopses many times in a day, it used to be 
> stable but after yum update (Oct 20) it started to oops.
> 
> Four recorded oopses attached.

How were these logs obtained?

I have had 2 problems lately where I wanted to get logs like this and 
don't know how. So far my attempts to get help with this have been 
unanswered except for one reply that seemed to agree with the problem of 
how to get them.

In one case I get a panic halt while trying to boot. Boot.log is empty. 
I haven't been able to find any other log that has the information.

In the other case, I was trying to install FC6. If I try to add a repo 
or choose the extras repo, I get a crash. It tells me that it is 
probably a bug, to save the crash info, and to file a BZ report. How do 
I do this? I can select the data and click on copy but after that any 
action justs results in a system reboot.

I really would like to learn how to capture the data from these crashes 
  and save it.

Mel