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Re: Preserving early console output (pre-Copyright stuff)



On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 05:18:36AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote:
> a) a way to capture these messages in the normal message buffer for 
> later collection by syslog, or
> 
> b) a way to pause long enough to manually transcribe the output?  (A 
> simple timed delay would work, although a "Press any key to continue" 
> would be easier!)

I don't know of an easy way to do either (although I could see adding
something to pause every N calls if it's not logging yet), but this
is the kind of thing that a serial console can be really handy for.
Do you have serial ports on the system in question?

-allen

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Allen Briggs  -  briggs%ninthwonder.com@localhost


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