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[PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGA
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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>
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Dave Jones authored and Linus Torvalds committed Nov 15, 2005
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Expand Up @@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :-
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
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