Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:08:56 +0200 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram? |
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On 2002.09.04 Remco Post wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > > >On woensdag, september 4, 2002, at 02:54 , Morten Helgesen wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >>> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 13:31, Morten Helgesen wrote: >>>> True - the 'normal' size on a PC is apparently something like 114 >>>> bytes ... >>>> I guess we could use it for something useful ... but maybe not for >>>> OOPSen/panics. >>>> >>>> I didn`t realize we only had 114 bytes to work with. >>> >>> We don't. They are all used by the BIOS >> >> That makes it even less useful. Oh well. >> > >For PC style hardware it does. For other platforms, it's stil nice to be >able to see the oops info on an unattended crash (all crashes? ;) Dump >to nvram, dump to file after boot.... Other option is to crash-dump to >swap... Question is, do you really want to do that? >
Instead of swap, let user specify a partition to raw dump there. If a user wants crash dumps, he has to leave some small disk space free and give an option like "dump=/dev/hda7".
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