Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:33:59 -0400 (AST) | From | William Burrow <> | Subject | Re: How to force a kernel panic ? |
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On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Roy P. Turner wrote:
> I'm sure you've gotten many suggestions already, but here's another one. > Found this out by accident last night. Try using swapon on a non swap > filesystem. Ie. if /dev/hda1 is a ext2 partition, try 'swapon /dev/hda1'. > Just for disclaimer, I don't mean activating a swap file on an ext2 > filesystem which is perfectly valid. I'm using kernel 2.1.17 and got a > pretty quick panic.
Strange, I used to use the tactic of doing swapon an MSDOS partition on the old 4 meg machine. Couldn't do anything if I ran any program before swapon, if I recall correctly.
-- William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada Copyright 1997 William Burrow This line left intentionally blank. And the one below it.
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