Avoid crash dump

Avoid crash dump

[Jared Rhine]

Is there a way to avoid the Xen on-screen crash dump/traceback?  I'm
having a xen startup (before dom0) problem with a particular
configuration where I don't have a serial port, so I can't see the
last messages output before the crash.

I'll probably be able to find the code and comment it out, if nothing
currently exists.  In which case, please consider this feature request.

-- jared@wordzoo.com

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Re: Avoid crash dump

[Jan Kundrát]

> Is there a way to avoid the Xen on-screen crash dump/traceback?  I'm
> having a xen startup (before dom0) problem with a particular
> configuration where I don't have a serial port, so I can't see the
> last messages output before the crash.
> 
> I'll probably be able to find the code and comment it out, if nothing
> currently exists.  In which case, please consider this feature request.
> 

You could find the kmsgdump patch usefull, it saves such dumps to floppy.

jkt

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Avoid crash dump

[Jared Rhine]

[jan == ISO-8859-1 on Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:04:03 +0100]

  Jared> Is there a way to avoid the Xen on-screen crash
  Jared> dump/traceback?  I'm having a xen startup (before dom0)
  Jared> problem with a particular

  jan> You could find the kmsgdump patch usefull, it saves such dumps
  jan> to floppy.

Isn't kmsgdump a linux kernel patch?  My problem is a xen.gz thing, so
far as I know.

As far as linux crash dumps, I prefer the network dump patches instead
:) I haven't installed built a machine with a floppy in years.

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 Man gotta sit and wonder why, why, why.
 Tiger gotta sleep.  Bird gotta land.
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Re: Avoid crash dump

[Jan Kundrát]

Jared Rhine wrote:
> [jan == ISO-8859-1 on Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:04:03 +0100]
> 
>   Jared> Is there a way to avoid the Xen on-screen crash
>   Jared> dump/traceback?  I'm having a xen startup (before dom0)
>   Jared> problem with a particular
> 
>   jan> You could find the kmsgdump patch usefull, it saves such dumps
>   jan> to floppy.
> 
> Isn't kmsgdump a linux kernel patch?  My problem is a xen.gz thing, so
> far as I know.
> 
> As far as linux crash dumps, I prefer the network dump patches instead
> :) I haven't installed built a machine with a floppy in years.


Oh, sorry. I thought you were talking about domain0 oopses. BTW, I have 
neither VGA controller nor floppy in my xen machine ;-)

jkt

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