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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Greetings-</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Vivek made the following statement a few months ago: </font><br>
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<tt><font size="3">> On a side note, few months back there were folks who were trying<br>
> to enhance bootloaders to be able to prepare basic environment so<br>
> that a kdump kernel can boot even in the event of early first<br>
> kernel boot.</font></tt><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Any idea which bootloaders? Which folks? </font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I'm curious how one would go about implementing such a thing. What parameters would the bootloader need to supply to the kernel?</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thanks, </font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Nate</font></body></html>