Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:08:42 +0100 Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 outp

kinit (was: sleep before boot panic)

2008-01-10 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Wednesday 09 January 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > >> Of course, if we'd been using kinit, "soft panic" would > >> have been done exclusively in userspace... > > > > What's the status of kinit, btw? > > Pavel > > I

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Pavel Machek wrote: Of course, if we'd been using kinit, "soft panic" would have been done exclusively in userspace... What's the status of kinit, btw? Pavel It's bitrotted a bit since it was first rejected. It wouldn't take too much

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-08 Thread Andi Kleen
> I really like the "soft" panic better, where you still can operate the > kernel debugging features, but just have no user space supporting it. There is no specific reason many kernel debugging features (sysrq, scrollback) cannot work in the hard panic -- except that nobody coded it yet. -Andi

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-08 Thread Pavel Machek
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

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-08 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Introduce config CONFIG_SOFTPANIC > > Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a > > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely. > > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages. > > > > Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Introduce config CONFIG_SOFTPANIC > Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely. > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages. > > Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks good to me... but sho

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ingo Oeser wrote: On Monday 07 January 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 coul

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-07 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Monday 07 January 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-07 Thread Andi Kleen
Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 w

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-07 Thread Bodo Eggert
Ingo Oeser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CC'ed hpa, since I'm sure he can give useful advise on that :-) > > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Bernd Schubert wrote: >> On Sunday 06 January 2008, Ingo Oeser wrote: >> > On Sunday 06 January 2008, you wrote: >> > > Index: zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-06 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Bernd, CC'ed hpa, since I'm sure he can give useful advise on that :-) On Sunday 06 January 2008, Bernd Schubert wrote: > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Ingo Oeser wrote: > > Hi Bernd, > > > > On Sunday 06 January 2008, you wrote: > > > Index: zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c > > > =

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-06 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Ingo, On Sunday 06 January 2008, Ingo Oeser wrote: > Hi Bernd, > > On Sunday 06 January 2008, you wrote: > > Index: zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c > > === > > --- zd1211rw.git.beno.orig/init/do_mounts.c 2008-01-06 18:44:23.0

Re: sleep before boot panic

2008-01-06 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Bernd, On Sunday 06 January 2008, you wrote: > Index: zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c > === > --- zd1211rw.git.beno.orig/init/do_mounts.c 2008-01-06 18:44:23.0 > +0100 > +++ zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c2

sleep before boot panic

2008-01-06 Thread Bernd Schubert
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 miss