> OTOH, it _would_ be nice to have a permanent record of fatal kernel panics;
> copying a bunch of hexadecimal numbers on a piece of paper to determine
> what happened without miscopying any is slow and tedious. (OTOOH :-),
> when the kernel has panicked fatally I/O may not be such a good idea.)
Would it work, to save the messages in same place in memory (say between
512-640k, or so, and then, after the reboot LILO could dump the message via
the BIOS on /dev/lp0, or save it (however I don't know how) for the booting
kernel?
Or would the BIOS just override such magic cookies+message? (All BIOSes?)
Andreas
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