Comment 17 for bug 1066435

phill, that's what i was sort of suggesting. if you have the system installed, as long as you can access the drive in some way or another (heck, use another distro if you have to! [you don't but finnix works quick and easy for recovery purposes]) you should be able to get to the logs.

also, /proc/version or /proc/version_signature should have your kernel info, unless someone wants to recommend something better (i suggest this instead of uname -a in case you can't access the system, but only the drive).