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On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 13:44 -0800, Kurtis D. Rader wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-05 06:11:05, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:30:16AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > > Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote: > > > > This one delays each printk() during boot by a variable time > > > > (from kernel command line), while system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING. > > > > > > This sounds a bit like a aprils fool joke, what it is meant to do? You can > > > read the messages in the bootlog and use the scrollback keys, no? > > > > could be handy for those 'I see a few messages that scroll, and the > > box instantly reboots' bugs. Quite rare, but they do happen. > > Another very common situation is a system which fails to boot due to > failures to find the root filesystem. This can happen because of device name > slippage, root disk not being found, the proper HBA driver isn't present in mount by label fixes some of that but not all > the initrd image, etc. The customer calls us and reports the last thing they > see on the screen: fwiw it would make sense (at least for distros) to make this print a more helpful text about potential causes etc, rather than just making people say "the kernel paniced". - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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