How to write the log to harddisk while installing?
Hey, as noob-tester I have an old computer with old hardware (seems to be related). While installing beta6 there were some problems, but some of them makes the PC hang or stop the process before everything that is needed for typing into root-console F2 is loaded/set. This makes that I have to write the log directly to the harddisk so it won't be erased by reboot. Asked in IRC but there is everybody sleeping, and could not find it on the net. 2 major problems that makes my PC hang or makes the install hang are: 1.) have to use VESA-mode otherwise PC hangs right after setting the yast-collums cuase thre probably are to much of them (screen blank, keyboard locked) 2.) network install makes yast hang with the error >> end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 Can't find those bugs in bugzilla but need logs before I really can search and post if they not exist yet. Azerion
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Azerion wrote:
Hey,
as noob-tester I have an old computer with old hardware (seems to be related). While installing beta6 there were some problems, but some of them makes the PC hang or stop the process before everything that is needed for typing into root-console F2 is loaded/set. This makes that I have to write the log directly to the harddisk so it won't be erased by reboot.
console 9 has a shell running all the time. Steffen
Op donderdag 9 maart 2006 16:42, schreef Steffen Winterfeldt:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Azerion wrote:
Hey,
as noob-tester I have an old computer with old hardware (seems to be related). While installing beta6 there were some problems, but some of them makes the PC hang or stop the process before everything that is needed for typing into root-console F2 is loaded/set. This makes that I have to write the log directly to the harddisk so it won't be erased by reboot.
console 9 has a shell running all the time.
Steffen
I know, but at that point nothing is file-logged. So I have to capture it with cat /proc/kmsg >> log But I want to have that log on my harddisk so it will be saved. So first off all I have to mount. And then /oldroot/log (empty anyway). Problem is: I dont have time for all those commands. There is no break after the kernel loads and the error. How can I work-around that problem? Or is there a way I can start logging before the kernel starts? Azerion
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