At 2004-08-09T13:29:26+1200, Warwick Hay wrote:
Moving to Linux (Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!) by Marcel Gagne
Heh, sometimes I wish Linux had something similar to the blue screen of death. It's frustrating when the kernel panics and all you see is a hung X session. It makes it rather difficult to record the panic message for fault finding.
There are patches around to provide this (I can't find the link right now), but it's not in the standard kernel and probably never will be. I guess I should be content with the having the panic output as morse code...
I vaguely remember a patch that would write the panic message to a floppy if the kernel got its knickers in a knot. Saves copying hex from the screen by hand. Course, that assumes the floppy code didn't get munted.
Cheers, Carl.
