Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 8 Jan 2006 05:53:22 -0800 | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: oops pauser. |
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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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