Re: oops pauser.

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:38:22 +0200 Ville Herva wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:33:39AM -0500, you [Dave Jones] wrote:
> > 
> > If I had any faith in the sturdyness of the floppy driver, I'd
> > recommend someone looked into a 'dump oops to floppy' patch, but
> > it too relies on a large part of the system being in a sane
> > enough state to write blocks out to disk.
> 
> I believe kmsgdump (http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kmsgdump/) uses its own
> minimal 16-bit floppy driver to save the oops dump. 

It just switches to real mode and uses BIOS calls.

> Kmsgdump has been around for ages and still works with 2.6.x. I almost
> always use it (all of my boxes still have floppy drives.)


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~Randy
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