Re: dump device, reboot on kernel panic

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
10 Nov 1998 12:18:11 +0100

In article <cistron.199811092318.XAA19621@dax.scot.redhat.com>,
Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com> wrote:
>Finally, investigate using a serial console. That is built into 2.1
>(read Documentation/serial-console.txt), but you can achieve similar
>functionality on 2.0 by #defining CONFIG_SERIAL_ECHO and editing the
>serial port address in linux/drivers/char/console.c. Then make the
>/dev/console device point to /dev/ttyS0 and you are all set. I do this
>on all of my boxes.

I did a complete backport of the 2.1.x serial console stuff to 2.0.x, it's
at ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/kernel/

We use it on all our boxes ..

Mike.

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