On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Paul B. Henson wrote:
; On 10/20/2010 7:29 AM, Glen Gunselman wrote: ; Sun's x86 machines are definitely a step down from the capabilities of their ; SPARC systems, even ones years older. If a problem like this occurred on one ; of my SPARC servers, I'd simply break into the prom and force a kernel panic, ; resulting in a nice juicy crash dump suitable for forensic analysis. As far as ; I can tell, the only way on x86 to make this happen is to initially boot the ; system from the kernel debugger, and leave it running under the debugger ; indefinitely until the problem occurs 8-/. I'm also still disgusted about the ; continued lack of serial console logging support on the ILOM :(. You can force a panic on x86 via an NMI through an IPMI interface if the hardware supports it and you've set the right parameters in /etc/system. Here's an article on how to do it: http://www.cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=1044 Regards, Andy
