John Watlington wrote: >Is it in any way likely that memory errors could lead an x86 system >to reboot ? > > Yes Tripple fault can make your system to reboot.
>In the past, I have worked with systems where this was possible (it >trapped >unimplemented instructions to implement OS calls, one of which was >reboot). > > > Few months back i experienced a strange situation. When ever i plugged a perticular USB hard disk my laptop(Old TOSHIBA) refused to work I could not understand why, >I can't think of an equivalent situation with the laptop (i.e. a >modern kernel), >even if it is the kernel itself faulting, can you ? > > Less likely a kernel fault. >wad >_______________________________________________ >Devel mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > -- Thanks Ashok Shankar Das RedHat, Pune +91-9373695832 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
