Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jan 2006 09:07:45 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: oops pauser. / boot_delayer |
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>> This one delays each printk() during boot by a variable time >> (from kernel command line), while system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING. > >This sounds a bit like a aprils fool joke, what it is meant to do? You can >read the messages in the bootlog and use the scrollback keys, no? > If the end result is a PANIC, then no, then scrollback keys do not work. Also note that the kernel generates a lot of noise^W text - if now the start scripts from $YOUR_FAVORITE_DISTRO also fill up, I can barely reach the top of the kernel when it says Linux version 2.6.15 (jengelh@gwdg-wb04.gwdg.de) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Jan 3 09:21:27 CET 2006
Plus, if you happen to oops away, panic away or just get a "VFS root unmountable" during kernel _boot_, you cannot use scrollback either.
So to say, scrollback starts working (for me) when INIT is spawned.
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