Re: New partition type?

Simon Richter (geier@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Fri, 14 May 1999 14:37:30 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 8 May 1999 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> Probably the main objection to
> 1. Write the oops to a dedicated oops partition.
> is that when the kernel crashes nothing can be trusted.
> In such a situation it may be very unwise to start writing to disk.

How about writing it to the middle of available RAM, then performing a
warm reboot. If one wants to be sure that the oops is recorded properly,
one could also remove __initdata handling and simply reboot by skipping to
the start of the kernel.

Simon

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