Re: logging on kernel panic

[Cong Wang]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Mahmood Naderan <nt_mahmood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everybody
> If a system receives kernel panic during boot, will it be logged somewhere?
> In our diskless cluster, clients boot from an image located at /nfsroot
> Normally /nfsroot/var/log/syslog should contain messages. However
> on a kernel panic, there is no log in /nfsroot/var/log/syslog/
>

The kernel log may not hit /var/log/syslog when kernel panics,
try other more reliable way to get the kernel log, there are some
new ways to store the kernel log at panic/oops, pstore filesystem
is one of them.

As Alan mentioned, netconsole may work too.
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