Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: ENH: SysRq Screen-capture? | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 1999 00:53:37 -0700 (MST) |
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Nat Lanza writes: > If the kernel's that dead, do you really trust it to take a > screencapture and write out a file without trashing your filesystem?
Isn't this exactly what the SGI "Linux Kernel Crash Dump" program/patch does? It writes out not only the debug info from the screen, but also all of the memory pages to your (SCSI) swap device, and then recovers it on the next boot. No need to save the information manually.
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