From: forkosh@panix.com   
      
   noel  wrote:   
   > Robert Komar wrote:   
   >> ...I have not been able to boot the system.  It panics as it is   
   >> loading the initrd. It's hard to know [why] because I can't scroll   
   >> back up to the start of the panic log, as others have also pointed out.   
   >> Rob Komar   
   >   
   > had a boot issue once on a pentium, if I had scroll back I'd see   
   > the obvious error and correct it, but no scrollback meant hours   
   > and hours and hours of hair pulling - eventually grabbed a   
   > video camera and recorded the boot up, replayed the recording and saw   
   > the error, fixes in 15 seconds   
      
   What a great idea. I've had an ongoing similar problem, but it never   
   occurred to me to record the screen "offline" (so to speak).   
   You think that'll work using a smartphone video (actually, I guess   
   I'll be trying it regardless)?   
      
   Any possibility of an "online" (so to speak) recording of the screen?   
   I guess you'd need an already-booted-and-running system for that,   
   and then there's probably an application to do that somewhere (I don't   
   offhand know of any such thing, but I imagine it exists somewheres).   
   But I can't think of any way to do that while booting from an   
   installation medium. Is there maybe some way to do that???   
   Or maybe some simple change to initrd that would amount to a   
   "*.* -debuglogfile" line in syslog.conf???   
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