Bug#644174: DELL/Vostro 3750 fails to boot (Re: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: ACPI I/O resource conflicts with ACPI region SMBI)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Thanks for your help, very much appreciated. Do you have any
> reference, tutorial on netconsole within d-i. All I can find at the
> moment is:

The installer log you sent is already enough of a log from the d-i
side --- sorry I missed it before.  Where netconsole would be useful
is in getting a log from the installed system.  I think you understood
this; just repeating it for reference.

> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/492
>
> I do not see how I can `modprobe netconsole` when booting my laptop machine.

Yeah, that article kind of misses the point. :)

Here's some quick documentation on netconsole[1] and serial console[2].
In many cases, a photo of the screen is just as good.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[1] https://raw.github.com/torvalds/linux/master/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
[2] https://raw.github.com/torvalds/linux/master/Documentation/serial-console.txt