Re: How to capture bootstrap oops?

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Date: Sun Sep 29 2002 - 19:03:33 EST


cwhmlist@bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> I need some help, I'm new to this. I have compliled a 2.5.39 kernel for
> my quad pentium pro system and it is oopsing on bootup. Unfortunently,
> it looks like a good portion of the oops scrolls off of the screen. Since
> I don't have the ability to hook up a serial terminal, how do I capture
> this oops so I can report it?

This might suffice?

--- linux-2.5.39/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Fri Sep 27 15:09:03 2002
+++ 25/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c Sun Sep 29 17:02:38 2002
@@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ void die(const char * str, struct pt_reg
         handle_BUG(regs);
         printk("%s: %04lx\n", str, err & 0xffff);
         show_registers(regs);
+ for ( ; ; )
+ ;
         bust_spinlocks(0);
         spin_unlock_irq(&die_lock);
         do_exit(SIGSEGV);
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