Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:18:33 -0700 | From | Ben Greear <> | Subject | Re: Locked up 2.4.10-pre11 on Tyan 815t motherboard. |
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bill davidsen wrote: > > In article <3BA8DF59.B9F536B4@candelatech.com> greearb@candelatech.com wrote: > | Andrew Morton wrote: > | > | > nmi_watchdog will force an oops if the machine locks up > | > with interrupts disabled (as I suspect mine did). But > | > it requires an SMP kernel or IO-APIC-on-UP. > | > | I just built a 2.4.8 kernel with the APIC enabled. It locked > | hard and printed no OOPS. I had set the boot cmd line as: > | nmi_watchdog=1 > > This only works if you have a lock with no response. If keyboard input > is echoed or ping still works, that's not the tight lockup. May I > suggest the software watchdog feature as an alternative. It's much > better at finding cases where the system is only braindead rather than > locked up.
The keyboard did not work and ping did not work...
alt-sysreq did not work either.
Ben
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