Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:52:07 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: sleep before boot panic | |
Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Monday 07 January 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just switched to libata (pata) on my laptop and the immediate panic made it
>>> impossible to figure out why my boot partition wasn't available.
>>> After applying this little patch I could check boot printk output and then saw
>>> everything was properly recognized and only scsi-disk support was missing.
>> The correct fix would be to make scroll back (and sysrq) still work
>> after panic. It's a little more complicated, but possible (essentially
>> it needs a polled keyboard handler)
>
> Customer: "This system could not find the root fs."
> Support: "Oh, yeah, just connect a (USB-) keyboard and scroll back."
>
> Hmm, device detection works after panic?
>
> I really like the "soft" panic better, where you still can operate the
> kernel debugging features, but just have no user space supporting it.
>
Of course, if we'd been using kinit, "soft panic" would have been done
exclusively in userspace...
-hpa
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