Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758855AbYAGUlk (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:41:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754891AbYAGUlc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:41:32 -0500 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45858 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752383AbYAGUlc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2008 15:41:32 -0500 To: Bernd Schubert Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sleep before boot panic From: Andi Kleen References: <200801061908.43010.bernd-schubert@gmx.de> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:41:31 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200801061908.43010.bernd-schubert@gmx.de> (Bernd Schubert's message of "Sun\, 6 Jan 2008 19\:08\:42 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 792 Lines: 19 Bernd Schubert 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/