[ale] CD Burning / Kernel Panic

[Geoffrey]

Danny Cox wrote:
> Geoffrey,
> 
> On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 09:13, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Which prompts the question...  How do folks capture panic info?  I've 
>>never been able to locate it in a log file, which kinda makes sense I 
>>guess.  Whenever I wanted to do something like ksymoops, I'd literally 
>>type the bloody thing in by hand.
>>
> 
> 	Well, sometimes, a "non-fatal" oops will show up in syslog.

Mine was definitely fatal, locked up the box requiring a hard reboot.

> In other
> cases, you need to be running on a system with console directed to it's
> serial port (lilo: linux console=ttyS0,115200n8), and use minicom on
> another system to view the output.  It's an easy cut-n-paste from there.

There you go, never considered that.  Thanks.

> 
> 	On a stand-alone system, I know of no other way.
> 
> 	Back in ancient times, most UNIX systems would, on a panic, store their
> kernel memory image in swap.  On a reboot, before turning on swap, a
> program looked for the "core magic bytes" in swap, and copy it to a
> file, usually in /var/core or somesuch, along with a copy of /vmunix. 
> Just imagine when /var filled up from execssive panics and many programs
> refused to start (X, for one ;-).
> 
> 


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