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NOTE: ksymoops is useless on 2.6. Please use the Oops in its original format
(from dmesg, etc). Ignore any references in this or other docs to "decoding
-the Oops" or "running it through ksymoops". If you post an Oops fron 2.6 that
+the Oops" or "running it through ksymoops". If you post an Oops from 2.6 that
has been run through ksymoops, people will just tell you to repost it.
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@@ -30,7 +30,9 @@ 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.
(2) Boot with a serial console (see Documentation/serial-console.txt),
run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there
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