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diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt index 05960f8a748e..2503404ae5c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt +++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt @@ -41,11 +41,9 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :- run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there using your favourite communication program. Minicom works well. -(3) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save - data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of - these are standard kernel patches so you have to find and apply - them yourself. Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and - oops+smram. +(3) Use Kdump (see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt), + extract the kernel ring buffer from old memory with using dmesg + gdbmacro in Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt. Full Information |