From: Kenneth MacDonald <kenny@holyrood.ed.ac.uk>
To: "George Bonser" <george@gator.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux console at boot
Date: 25 Jan 2002 13:46:29 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yqopu3yilvu.fsf@penguin.ucs.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CHEKKPICCNOGICGMDODJKEPAGBAA.george@gator.com>
In-Reply-To: "George Bonser"'s message of "Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:05:45 -0800"
>>>>> "George" == George Bonser <george@gator.com> writes:
George> Is there any way to stop the console scrolling during
George> boot? My reason for this is I am trying to troubleshoot a
George> boot problem with 2.4.18-pre7 and I would like to give a
George> more useful report than "it won't boot" but the screen
George> outputs information every few seconds and I can't "freeze"
George> the display so I can copy down the initial error(s).
Does keeping SHIFT-PAGEUP help? It'll warp back to the bottom on
output, but should give you enough time to get what you need. Try
taking a photo of the screen while pressing that key combination too.
--
Kenny
ADML Support, EUCS, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-25 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-25 5:05 George Bonser
2002-01-25 6:06 ` M. Edward Borasky
2002-01-25 6:27 ` George Bonser
2002-01-25 13:46 ` Kenneth MacDonald [this message]
2002-01-26 5:51 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-25 5:54 ` George Bonser
2002-01-25 5:59 ` Brendan J Simon
2002-01-26 7:13 ` Timothy Covell
2002-01-26 10:32 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-26 20:34 ` George Bonser
2002-01-26 22:04 ` George Bonser
2002-02-12 8:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-02-12 15:14 ` Bradley D. LaRonde
2002-02-12 15:25 Alexander Sandler
2002-02-12 15:33 ` Davidovac Zoran
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