Bug: Soft lockup detected on CPU#0!

[James McDonald]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Michael Hipp wrote:
>   
> You need to setup a serial console to capture the full output.  I've never 
> seen a CPU soft lockup that didn't include a backtrace.
>
>   
How would one set up a serial console is it simply a matter of plugging 
a laptop with a terminal program into the serial port of the server ? 
How do you capture the full backtrace?