[Pacemaker] about iTCO_wdt watchdog

[Vadym Chepkov]

On Aug 2, 2012, at 4:06 AM, Mia Lueng wrote:

> you misunderstand me. I just simulate a system crash to test if the
> watchdog can reboot the system .
> 

All kernel wdt modules still rely on a functioning kernel.
But you crashed kernel at this point, so no one will reboot your system.
What I think you want is to have watchdog enabled in the BIOS (if you have it) and then use some vendor program to support that real "hardware" watchdog. I think most of them are available via IPMI.

P.S. I think it's off-topic for this list though - you probably will get a better chance to get answer in linux-ha maillist.

Vadym