From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Bruno Vidal Cc: "parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org" Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] vmlinux header for savecrash. In-Reply-To: Message from Bruno Vidal of "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:20:59 +0100." <3C4D2EFB.F82671C2@admin.france.hp.com> References: <3C4C53B7.67DA24E@admin.france.hp.com> <20020121202539.994A5482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> <3C4D2EFB.F82671C2@admin.france.hp.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:45:33 -0700 From: Grant Grundler Message-Id: <20020122174533.38418482A@dsl2.external.hp.com> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Bruno Vidal wrote: > Sorry, but on my system, fgrep gives nothing > (and by using strings, I found nothing also). grundler@gsyprf11:~$ uname -a Linux gsyprf11.external.hp.com 2.4.17-pa11 #3 SMP Fri Jan 18 23:32:06 PST 2002 parisc64 unknown grundler@gsyprf11:~$ strings /boot/vmlinux | fgrep 2.4.17 Linux version 2.4.17-pa11 (grundler@gsyprf10) (gcc version 3.0.3) #3 SMP Fri Jan 18 23:32:06 PST 2002 Linux 2.4.17-pa11 2.4.17-pa11 grundler@gsyprf11:~$ Perhaps a simple fgrep isn't sufficient for what you have. You might need to pick out certain fields. > And I > can't use dmesg buffer, because by definition it is a buffer, > so after running sometime, the palo boot strings is not > in the buffer anymore. right. They should be in the /var/log/messages if they are no longer in the dmesg buffer. > Some new ideas ? Randolph Chung and I were wondering if dump driver could save a parameter passed in by palo: eg "boot_kernel=/boot/vmlinux-pa11". I haven't checked if something like that already exists. grant