Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jul 1997 08:48:39 -0400 (EDT) | From | Gerald Britton <> | Subject | Re: linux-2.1.44 on i586: Immediate crash on boot |
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> > The kernel crashes after mounting all disks, briefly flashes a console full > > of weirdly colored characters and reboots. No messages make it to > > /var/log/messages, nothing can be seen when it goes down either.. > > Actually, just FYI, I've had this sort of thing happen in 2.1.42 as well. > Hard freezes, hard freezes with screens full of flashing colored garbage, > and spontaneous reboots were all frequent occurances.
I have gotten somewhat similar results with various kernels in the past, though not as spectacular.. i've gotten random characters appearing on all the consoles, these characters are often multi colored and appear to accumulate over time. I assumed that this was a sign of kernel memory corruption, so i synced my disks and rebooted (usually making it before an oops or hard crash). This has been one of the most spectacular crashes i've seen under Linux, under NT i've gotten even worse (and more frequent than even 2.1.x kernels) crashes where the monitor goes into whitenoise :)
-- Gerald Britton gbritton@nih.gov
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