On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 01:00, Russell Hires wrote: > > > If that was the only problem... when you're in xmon, bad things have > > happened and everything is interrupted. Only when you exit xmon (by > > entering 'x') does the system continue to run. So there is no filesystem > > access in xmon. > Typing 'x' could be bad anyway, since the whole system is down. At least it > would allow for an orderly shutdown?
If it's only an oops, yes. If it's a panic, you won't be able to do anything but force reboot after you exit xmon. > I've got another question related to this: could it be a hardware failure on > my computer's part somewhere? The kind of failure that a 2.4 kernel would > see, where a 2.2. kernel wouldn't? I rather doubt that. I could imagine one kernel showing hardware problems more than another, but not that one does and the other not at all. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
