Re: Suspend to disk panicked in -test9.

[Bill Davidsen]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:14:06 GMT, davidsen@xxxxxxx (bill davidsen)  said:
> 
> > Or people who want it that way could put the setterm call in their
> > rc.local, of course. No patches required and the rest of the world
> > doesn't have to turn it on.
> 
> Of course, this means that you have to know beforehand that your
> machine is going to panic.

Unless it panics in the boot and never loads the first startup file you
can execute the blank disable there.

> Rob Landley is right - there should be a patch to make it go away
> if the kernel panics.  

There should be a lot of things, including writing the dump to a disk
partition like AIX, Solaris, etc, etc. That never got in, either. I'd
rather see the blank disable as a configurable boot time option, so people
who don't want it don't get it, and vice-versa. 

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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