[PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGA
Something I've found handy countless times when users do this..
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
index 9f30ac6..05960f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@
has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not
planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of
the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than
- nothing.
+ nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you
+ may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791)
+ will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb,
+ so won't help for 'early' oopses)
(2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),
run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there