US 7,484,127 B2
Method and system for preserving crash dump in a diskless system
Venkatesh Babu, Santa Clara, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Nokia Siemens Networks OY, Espoo (Finland)
Filed on Jan. 13, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/34,247.
Prior Publication US 2006/0156057 A1, Jul. 13, 2006
Int. Cl. G06F 11/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 714—38  [714/23; 713/1; 713/2] 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
loading and booting a primary operating system kernel;
preparing environment for booting a secondary operating system kernel by said primary kernel;
loading and booting a secondary operating system kernel, wherein both said primary kernel and said secondary kernel are loaded and booted before a crash;
in case of a crash,
preparing said secondary kernel for jumping back to said primary kernel; and
preserving crash dump data and jumping back to said primary kernel for storing the preserved data.