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Subject[PATCH] Documentation/oops-tracking update
SMP kernel have a far lower chance to log an oops to the kernel log,
because they often loose a spinlock. I think we should document that in
the oops-tracking document:
My patch is below, what do you think?

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Manfred--- 2.3/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt Fri Nov 12 12:50:31 1999
+++ build-2.3/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt Sun Dec 26 19:48:49 1999
@@ -26,17 +26,21 @@
buffers and save it. Or you can cat /proc/kmsg > file, however you
have to break in to stop the transfer, kmsg is a "never ending file".
If the machine has crashed so badly that you cannot enter commands or
-the disk is not available then you have three options :-
+the disk is not available then you have four options :-

-(1) Hand copy the text from the screen and type it in after the machine
+(1) Compile the kernel for uni-processor: uni-processor kernels have a
+ higher chance to write the oops to the disk.
+
+(2) Hand copy the text from the screen and type it in after the machine
has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not
planned for a crash.

-(2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),
+(3) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),
run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there
using your favourite communication program. Minicom works well.
+ You can also use a parallel printer.

-(3) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save
+(4) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save
data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of
these are standard kernel patches so you have to find and apply
them yourself. Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and
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