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Date:      Mon, 07 Jul 1997 19:17:21 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Logging kernel panics 
Message-ID:  <199707080217.TAA03145@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jul 1997 15:54:23 PDT." <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970707152905.13964A-100000@ds9> 

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>Is there some fairly reliable way of storing panic messages, short of
>logging all console output via a serial port?  We already have a serial
>console, but the darned thing doesn't have any logging at all.

   Try building your bootblocks with the "BOOT_FORCE_COMCONSOLE" option, and
then re-installing them with disklabel -B <disk>. This will cause all console
output to go to the serial port.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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