From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Kurtis D. Rader" <kdrader@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Bernd Eckenfels <be-news06@lina.inka.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops pauser. / boot_delayer
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:48:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136670488.2936.44.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060107214439.GA13433@us.ibm.com>
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 13:44 -0800, Kurtis D. Rader wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 06:11:05, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:30:16AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > > Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> > > > This one delays each printk() during boot by a variable time
> > > > (from kernel command line), while system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING.
> > >
> > > This sounds a bit like a aprils fool joke, what it is meant to do? You can
> > > read the messages in the bootlog and use the scrollback keys, no?
> >
> > could be handy for those 'I see a few messages that scroll, and the
> > box instantly reboots' bugs. Quite rare, but they do happen.
>
> Another very common situation is a system which fails to boot due to
> failures to find the root filesystem. This can happen because of device name
> slippage, root disk not being found, the proper HBA driver isn't present in
mount by label fixes some of that but not all
> the initrd image, etc. The customer calls us and reports the last thing they
> see on the screen:
fwiw it would make sense (at least for distros) to make this print a
more helpful text about potential causes etc, rather than just making
people say "the kernel paniced".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-05 4:52 oops pauser Dave Jones
2006-01-05 6:10 ` oops pauser. / boot_delayer Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-05 7:30 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-05 8:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-06 1:28 ` David Lang
2006-01-06 5:36 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 7:00 ` David Lang
2006-01-08 13:21 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-08 19:30 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-08 23:08 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-08 23:39 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-06 7:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-06 8:33 ` David Lang
2006-01-05 9:25 ` Grant Coady
2006-01-05 15:31 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-05 15:38 ` Avishay Traeger
2006-01-05 19:15 ` Mark Lord
2006-01-05 11:11 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-07 21:44 ` Kurtis D. Rader
2006-01-07 21:48 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-01-07 22:00 ` Kurtis D. Rader
2006-01-08 23:29 ` David Lang
2006-01-07 22:27 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-05 8:15 ` oops pauser Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-05 10:33 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 11:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-05 12:05 ` Keith Owens
2006-01-05 15:17 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-01-05 13:46 ` Kurt Wall
2006-01-06 1:24 ` David Lang
2006-01-06 1:41 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-08 13:38 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-08 13:53 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-08 19:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-09 1:43 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-08 19:40 ` Grant Coady
2006-01-09 1:45 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-09 16:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-09 16:25 ` Ville Herva
2006-01-09 16:39 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-01-05 13:37 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-05 20:52 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 13:31 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-06 20:33 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 15:22 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 19:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-06 22:34 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 22:48 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-05 13:58 ` Avishay Traeger
2006-01-05 20:54 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 0:19 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-06 1:12 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-06 1:35 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-06 2:21 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2006-01-05 14:39 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-01-09 18:43 ` Console debugging wishlist was: " Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 20:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 20:29 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-10 20:44 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 22:54 ` Josef Sipek
2006-01-10 20:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 20:45 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 21:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-10 21:18 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-10 21:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-11 12:24 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 12:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-11 13:05 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 13:17 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-11 13:43 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2006-01-11 13:51 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-11 18:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
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