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@@ -41,11 +41,9 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :-
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run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there
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using your favourite communication program. Minicom works well.
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-(3) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save
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- data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of
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- these are standard kernel patches so you have to find and apply
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- them yourself. Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and
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- oops+smram.
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+(3) Use Kdump (see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt),
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+ extract the kernel ring buffer from old memory with using dmesg
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+ gdbmacro in Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt.
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