Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Well, that and the knowledge of how to monitor it on the other end, which I lack :-). And does one need a null-modem cable? I haven't used serial cables since USB was introduced. Is serial monitoring preferred over netconsole?Er... by serial console, I assume you mean via a serial cable and some otherSerial console -- only requires a serial cable, available in the next computer store -- also works with non-Linux, non-x86 and (mostly) systems-w/o-compiler.
device. If so, then no, I don't have that capability. I didn't know about
netconsole before you mentioned it; I'll do some research and set it up. I do
In any case, I've figured out how to get netconsole working, and have started monitoring it from my wife's laptop. I just need to reboot and make sure it is working (that I got the UDP addresses right), and then wait for a crash. I won't get to this until this evening, probably.
Mark, I'm going to start CC'ing you, and I'll forward you the previous emails.
Thanks, everybody, for responding.
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