On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 08:44:14PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. > Nice, I'll try prototyping this using syslinux and kexec: this seems the safest path so far. Further details are in my first reply to Vivek. > -hpa thanks, -- Darwish http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
