Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:41:54 +0200 | From | "J.A. Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram? |
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On 2002.09.04 Alan Cox wrote: >On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:08, J.A. Magallon wrote: >> 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". > >With what will you write it - not the linux block layer thats for sure. >Ingo has patches for doing network dumps which are kind of neat >
Ah, ther is no way to write raw blocks at a very low level to disk...?? LKCD at least writes to a floppy, doesn't it.? Say you just need one block for the dump. Could you get the block location (H/C/S) on boot and tell the bios to write a chunk there on crash ?
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