On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Vincent Duvert <vincent.duvert@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On a side note : IIRC, Mac OS X writes its panics dumps to NVRAM. This could > be a good way to save panic information when crashing... But maybe it is > only possible on Macs, I don't know. > > Vincent > Unfortunately, they can do that because they have control over all the hardware that goes into the computer, such as what I think may be larger NVRAM. We've only got a handful of bytes to work with in NVRAM in current BIOS-using PCs (though this may change with EFI). -- - Dustin L. Howett