Re: oops pauser.

[Grant Coady]

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 05:53:22 -0800, "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>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.

So would it be viable to take over the screen in similar fashion?

Set it to 80x50 in BIOS and dump there --> call it the Penguin Oops 
screen, or Poops for short :o)

Grant.
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