From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 21 02:01:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id CAA05924 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 02:01:29 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id CAA05918 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 02:01:22 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HUBZFRVVN4007PK4@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:00:46 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id LAA26826; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:14:14 +0200 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:14:13 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: How do I save panic messages?! In-reply-to: <199508201502.LAA01118@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Aug 20, 95 11:02:04 am To: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199508210914.LAA26826@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 725 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > This is getting tedious, Im attempting to work on significant port of kernel > level code, but if Im not sitting on virtual console 0, whenever the system > panics, Im screwed. I cant switch out of X, or kill the screen blanker, or > switch to the virtual console to see what the hell went wrong, nor is any > information logged anywhere :(. Any help is most gratefully appreciated. You may build a kernel with the COMCONSOLE option and run your system through a terminal window from another box. > > -Crh > > Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu > > http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/ > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de