Commit e1f1def6 authored by Dave Jones's avatar Dave Jones Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGA

Something I've found handy countless times when users do this..
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 1d193f4f
...@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- ...@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :-
has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not
planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of
the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than
nothing. nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you
may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791)
will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb,
so won't help for 'early' oopses)
(2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt), (2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),
run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there
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