From: theise@panix.com   
      
   On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 04:12:40 -0000 (UTC),   
     John Forkosh  wrote:   
   >  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)?   
      
   Some 20 years ago I used a video recorder to capture EKG traces in   
   a clinical study, rather than try to figure out how to get the   
   data out of the units.  A most practical approach.   
      
   I would expect the smartphone video to work okay.  Resolution may   
   not be optimal, but probably good enough.  I used my iPhone SE to   
   record the video from an old VCR as it played on a tv screen.  Not   
   even close to HD ( :), but surprisingly good.   
      
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   Ted Heise             West Lafayette, IN, USA   
      
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