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Re: console server and kernel prints
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: console server and kernel prints |
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Fri, 8 Feb 2002 21:29:01 +0100 |
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:24:22PM +0100, Niels Möller wrote:
> For serious debugging of kernel panics, you'd want to use a gdb on the
> serial line, or a real crash dump for post-mortem debugging (I'm not
> very familiar with crash dump feature, but I think it means writing
> the system state onto the swap partition, or some other partition
> reserved for this very purpose).
I think that reserving a couple of blocks on the hard disk for dumping a
core file of the kernel might be feasible.
Of coure you are right about what you say. Although a minimal console in
the kernel is useful if your system is hosed (well, the same could be said
about other things as well of course).
Thanks,
Marcus
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