Re: Capturing dmesg upon system crash on 6.3



I'm looking into the syslogd capabilities at the moment, it might be
enough.
I've tried following the serial console setup you've pointed, but when I
added the 'console=3D"comconsole"' to loader.conf the OS hanged during
boot time, had to re-install the system.

I assume the info you need is not getting captured in /var/log?

Perhaps your system needs a firmware setting changed to use a RS-232 console?

I assume it is not waiting for a control line, e.g. carrier detect, to go high?

Some systems have buggy firmware and still read from the ps2 keyboard
even though they are printing to the RS-232 console.

If all else fails there is the aim a video camera at the screen method. :-(
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