Re: The stability crisis
Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:12:26 +1000
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 20:54:04 -0700 (PDT),
Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Keith Owens wrote:
>> When the kernel is hung, almost all I/O hangs with it.
>
>So figure out a way to keep PC BIOS from mangling ram on hard reset.
>Then dump to swap from lilo or something.
You have code to do this? The BIOS bit that is, if you know a method
for stopping a BIOS clearing memory that works on a reasonable set of
motherboards then please tell us.
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