> having a nice integrated kernel debugger like SGI's kdb would be great
> to resolve problems like these. the patch to dump an oops to a floppy is
> also good, but would it be possible to dump it to a file or a small
> partition on an internal disk instead? Linus, including a feature like
> that would make it a whole lot easier to get high quality oops reports to
> developers.
No. Dumping to on-disk partition is _very_ risky, because it is easy
to miss the right partition. Floppy is much safer because it is much
harder to hit harddisk this way.
Pavel
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