Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 1999 14:37:30 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Simon Richter <> | | Subject | Re: New partition type? |
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On Sat, 8 May 1999 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> Probably the main objection to > 1. Write the oops to a dedicated oops partition. > is that when the kernel crashes nothing can be trusted. > In such a situation it may be very unwise to start writing to disk.
How about writing it to the middle of available RAM, then performing a warm reboot. If one wants to be sure that the oops is recorded properly, one could also remove __initdata handling and simply reboot by skipping to the start of the kernel.
Simon
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