Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:55:26 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: How to force a kernel panic ? |
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On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Jason Burrell wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Steffan Henke wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've just recently added the panic parameter to my lilo.conf and would > > like to try out if it works. Unfortunately (?), I haven't had a kernel > > panic for a while now. How can one be forced ? > > > > Regards, > > > > Steffan > Grin...Grin...Grin! That's easy! At your own risk. Copy /dev/zero to the swap-file or swap partition. Then wake up some sleeping task like telnetd by using telnet to log into your system.
After you reboot, you will have to mkswap /dev/whatever to use the swap device/file again.
I have no problem making my kernel panic. I use the aic7xxx SCSI driver. I just try to use a SCSI tape-drive <death>. Maybe someone will fix this sometime so I won't have to backup across the network to another machine that uses the same tape drive sucessfully.
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