The same thing happens with MVS, ICL 1900, ICL 2900 and any other
operating system on decent hardware.
>Linux would need a "non-operating system" mode of operation to proceed
>succesfully. Sounds tough but not impossible.
The tough bit is doing it on hardware which is so badly designed that
the O/S has to do everything, ix86 falls into that category. We either
write a completely separate I/O subsystem for dumps or we drop down to
the BIOS. Using BIOS means all addresses < 1M and single threaded
mode, followed by a reboot.
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