On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Andrew Brown wrote:

> then i looked at dmesg output...it still seems to have a bunch of
> stuff from the last time the machine was booted.  including the
> panic message.
> where does it save it?

In a 4K buffer at the top of memory. If that doesn't get overwritten
by a power-cycle or memory tests or something like that, it will
be preserved across boots.

cjs

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