HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 Release Notes, September 2001

HP-UX Features
System Crash Dump Changes
Chapter 354
System Crash Dump Changes
The major changes to system crash dump functionality in HP-UX 11i
Version 1.5 (B.11.20) are largely internal and do not affect the user-level
interface:
❏ The boot loader passes user boot arguments through, unchanged, to
the kernel, where they are parsed. Accordingly, the dump/crash path
handles user boot arguments affecting dump device configuration,
initializes, at boot-time, certain dump-related data structures, allows
for user config(1M)-time and run-time configuration of dump devices
and selection of memory to be dumped, and explicitly passes any
information necessary for the taking of a crash dump to the dump
application.
❏ Dump support is currently available for the Qlogic and LSI SCSI
controllers only.
❏ There is currently no dump support for:
— IDE (you can’t dump to the CD read/write device or the LS-120
floppy device).
— Fibre Channel
—dump-to-tape
System Crash Dump Documentation
For more information, see the HP-UX 11i Version 1.5 System Crash
Dump white paper.