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SubjectRe: sleep before boot panic
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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)

-Andi


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