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Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"

Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"

Posted Mar 24, 2011 13:57 UTC (Thu) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath" by rwmj
Parent article: Persistent storage for a kernel's "dying breath"

Not reliably, no. The only persistent storage that's guaranteed on a BIOS-based PC is the real time clock, and there's not really enough space there. EFI actually helps here(!), although right now we don't implement the bits of the spec that cover this.


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