From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fname Lname Subject: Re: kernel panic Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 18:21:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030726012100.66619.qmail@web11507.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030724072906.GC18217@vega.digitel2002.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20030724072906.GC18217@vega.digitel2002.hu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: Linux-8086@Vger.Kernel.Org --- G=E1bor L=E9n=E1rt wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:47:45AM +0100, mount me > wrote: > > Hi all, > > what does "kernel panic" actually mean ? >=20 > In general it indicates a major problem which should > not occured=20 [*snip*] > A good example is the example where the root > filesystem cannot be mounted. > Since booting the OS _REQUIRES_ to mount the > filesystem it's perfectly clear > that kernel can't continue the boot procedure (since > eg running init should > be done from filesystem) so it stops there and > indicates the problem with a > message like kernel panic. [*snip*] Ahem... Evedently, you are not running on a MicroSoft=20 platform ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com