Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 11:11:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | Dan Hollis <> | Subject | Re: Oops assist... |
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Olaf Titz wrote: > > Even more ideal would be to dump the oops to somewhere non volatile over > > a reboot. I'm not sure there are good candidates for this on a PC. > SunOS thinks the swap disk is a good one (for making crash dumps of > the whole system actually). If code in the boot scripts checks for a > crash-dump signature on the primary swap disk _before_ swapon'ing it, > this could be easily accessed (i.e. written elsewhere).
SGI preserves ram on a reboot, unlike some PC BIOS which scribbles all over RAM on a reboot. So SGI can do a 100% safe crashdump by dumping after the system has been reset. Anyone know a PC BIOS which doesnt mangle RAM?
-Dan
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