On 01/26/2011 06:00 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I mean, use the warm reset vector to truly reset the box. > > Then, once a stable known-good kernel boots, *that* kernel can then recover all the > log data which is sitting in a well-known place in RAM, automatically and > transparently. > > Basically a bit like kexec, just more convenient and it also goes through the BIOS > warm reset, so it might work better than kexec ... > The problem is that the BIOS will often wipe memory. -hpa