On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:33:39AM -0500, you [Dave Jones] wrote:
>
> If I had any faith in the sturdyness of the floppy driver, I'd
> recommend someone looked into a 'dump oops to floppy' patch, but
> it too relies on a large part of the system being in a sane
> enough state to write blocks out to disk.
I believe kmsgdump (http://www.xenotime.net/linux/kmsgdump/) uses its own
minimal 16-bit floppy driver to save the oops dump.
Kmsgdump has been around for ages and still works with 2.6.x. I almost
always use it (all of my boxes still have floppy drives.)
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