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@@ -30,7 +30,12 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :-
(1) Hand copy the text from the screen and type it in after the machine
has restarted. Messy but it is the only option if you have not
- planned for a crash.
+ planned for a crash. Alternatively, you can take a picture of
+ the screen with a digital camera - not nice, but better than
+ nothing. If the messages scroll off the top of the console, you
+ may find that booting with a higher resolution (eg, vga=791)
+ will allow you to read more of the text. (Caveat: This needs vesafb,
+ so won't help for 'early' oopses)
(2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),
run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there