Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jul 1999 02:37:30 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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On Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 09:21:57AM +0200, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> Well IRIX boxes tend to have a PROM in which there is a file system > and a disk driver, thus when the system goes totally boink they can > escape to those and still do the core dump. That is pretty hard on > todays PC hardware.
Nope, IRIX writes the kernel core itself ...
Aside, the PROMs are rather primitive.
> Other than that I still haven't found much more useful info in those > monster dumps you get on commercial system than what the OOPS provides.
If the Oops is logged anywhere.
Ralf
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