Free Runner won't turn on

[Al Johnson]

On Monday 15 September 2008, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> | no. shutdown from holding power button seems not to be working anymore
> | (just freezed with blinking red light).
>
> Blinking red light means kernel panic.  It'd be great to have a
> backtrace from it but you'd need a debug board.

Does the debug board need to be connected when the panic happens, or is it 
possible to connect after the panic to get the backtrace, and if so how? 
Apart from the 'carefully remove the faceplate without dislodging the 
battery' part of course...