Joel Soete wrote:

>
> I had another question: this system has 2Gb of RAM and my boot disk is of
> 9Gb , so my question is: may I use any swap as dump device over the famous
> 2 first Gb of the disk

Yes, you can use any swap device, the limitation of the 2Gb is coming from
the capabilities of the scsi card itself, and on any "last" system the PDC is
able to acces over 2Gb. This limitation is only on old workstation and server,
like 712/K (not all scsi card)....I need to add this checking when configuring
the crash area. I've already start to add this, but it is not yet fully tested, mainly
because it is only for old system, A/N/L don't have this limitation.

> (or is it possible to pass a parameter to the kernel
> to put this swap-dump on another disk).

Sorry, not yet, I didn't look yet how to retrieve option
from the command line. But it is in my todo list to add
"early dump" feature.

>
>
> Thanks again for all,
>     Joel
>

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