problem with Kernel 2.6.23-6.fc8
Scott Berry
sberry at northlc.com
Mon Oct 15 14:00:53 UTC 2007
Hi Dave,
Just a learning experience here does vga=791 mean 791 lines of text on
the screen?
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 03:01:57PM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 14:15 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
> > > On the keyboard the Caps Lock and Scroll Lock keep flashing.
> >
> > This is a primary indicator that you're experiencing a kernel panic.
> > When you reboot, is there anything suspicious near the end of
> > your /var/log/messages file? (Hopefully, the kernel was able to dump a
> > stacktrace of the panic, or what may have caused it, etc.)
>
> Chances are, at that stage of boot sysklogd isn't running.
> Even if it is, the chances of the kernel panic hitting the logs
> are extremely slim (we tend to lock up instantly, and ext3
> needs at least 5 seconds for something to hit the disk).
>
> To get better debug data from this, I suggest turning off
> rhgb (remove it from the grub command line), and booting with
> vga=791 to get more lines of text onscreen. Hopefully
> that will then lockup with the panic onscreen where it
> can be captured with a digital camera (or worse case, by hand)
>
> Dave
>
>
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Scott Berry
Email: sberry at northlc.com
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