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 -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
