Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030629AbWAHNi0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:38:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932732AbWAHNi0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:38:26 -0500 Received: from herkules.vianova.fi ([194.100.28.129]:27591 "HELO mail.vianova.fi") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932731AbWAHNi0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:38:26 -0500 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 15:38:22 +0200 From: Ville Herva To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops pauser. Message-ID: <20060108133822.GD31624@vianova.fi> Reply-To: vherva@vianova.fi References: <20060105045212.GA15789@redhat.com> <20060105103339.GG20809@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060105103339.GG20809@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 831 Lines: 23 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. 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.) -- v -- v@iki.fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/