On 01/26/2011 06:13 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote: >> >> - Use kexec/kdump. I wonder though, can kexec work on early panics? The >> kind where the disk itself might not yet be initialized? > > As of today kexec/kdump does not work with early panics as kdump kernel > needs to be loaded in reserved memory and that action happens once the > first kernel has booted. > > There is so much to it that I really don't think that modifying bootloaders to > do all that might not trivial and more importantly I think it probably is not > worth the effort. > It's really not all that hard, actually. -hpa
