Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Jul 1999 09:16:18 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: The stability crisis |
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Hi!
> > Or find a way to prevent PC bios from wiping memory on hard reset, and > > then add a dumper routine to lilo or the kernel. Eg lilo dumps ram to the > > swap partition, which is then picked up during swapon when linux boots, > > and written out to /var/adm/crash/ > > I guess that's impossible with today's PC BIOSes. Perhaps you could > go
Someone already posted patch which does just that (you remember, that non-GPL intel-chipset-specific), so it must be possible.
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