> > Or find a way to prevent PC bios from wiping memory on hard reset, and
> > then add a dumper routine to lilo or the kernel. Eg lilo dumps ram to the
> > swap partition, which is then picked up during swapon when linux boots,
> > and written out to /var/adm/crash/
>
> I guess that's impossible with today's PC BIOSes. Perhaps you could
> go
Someone already posted patch which does just that (you remember,
that non-GPL intel-chipset-specific), so it must be possible.
Pavel
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