What About the Root Filesystem?

[Baoquan He]

On 05/16/24 at 03:18pm, David L. Craig wrote:
> The kernel kdump doc only points to this mailing list for
> further information, so here I am.
> 
> I've been experiencing freezing of an AMD FX-9590 8-core
> box that has become much more predictable with time.  Are
> these disabled CPU-halt states?  I am seeking to get the
> box to spill its guts via NMI->fdump processing.  I finally
> got AltRq-C to do something different but inscrutable,
> causing the light to go on about the inadvisiblilty of
> using the same root filesystem for the dumping kernel as
> the freezing kernel.  Surely there is discussion of this
> somewhere in the past two decades of such capability.
> Can someone please point me to it?

I am curious about the problem, but may not understand what the problem
is. As a non-native english speaker, sometime understanding problem from
a paragraph of words may be more diffcult than the problem itself to me.