Is there a way to capture kernel panic info?

[Avi Schwartz]

Brian McKee wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Avi Schwartz
> <ubuntu-users352 at cfftechnologies.com> wrote:
>   
>> From time to time, while trying to send my laptop to sleep, I get a
>> kernel panic which dumps a lot of information on the screen.  Is there a
>> way to save this information into a file?  I would like to report this
>> issue but I have no way to capture the crash text.
>>     
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SerialConsoleHowto
> only use another linux box rather than a genuine serial console.  Then
> it's just copy and paste etc.
>
>   
Thanks Brian,

I managed to get the information I needed by using SySRq and I reported
the bug.  I will investigate the serial console though since it looks to
me like it is the preferred way to do it.

Avi