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From: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com>
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Subject: Re: Logging kernel panics 
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David -

We already have everything going to a serial console, as I said - the
problem is that the device we're using to attach to the serial console
doesn't log anything.  It would show us the panic message only if someone
was attached to the console at the time.

What I'm looking for is some way of storing the last panic error in a more
permanent fashion - to disk, assuming the disk isn't toast...

Any ideas?

					David Lowe

On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> >Is there some fairly reliable way of storing panic messages, short of
> >logging all console output via a serial port?  We already have a serial
> >console, but the darned thing doesn't have any logging at all.
> 
>    Try building your bootblocks with the "BOOT_FORCE_COMCONSOLE" option, and
> then re-installing them with disklabel -B <disk>. This will cause all console
> output to go to the serial port.
> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
>