> On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Steffan Henke wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just recently added the panic parameter to my lilo.conf and would
> > like to try out if it works. Unfortunately (?), I haven't had a kernel
> > panic for a while now. How can one be forced ?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Steffan
>
Grin...Grin...Grin! That's easy!
At your own risk. Copy /dev/zero to the swap-file or swap partition. Then
wake up some sleeping task like telnetd by using telnet to log into your
system.
After you reboot, you will have to mkswap /dev/whatever to use the swap
device/file again.
I have no problem making my kernel panic. I use the aic7xxx SCSI driver.
I just try to use a SCSI tape-drive <death>. Maybe someone will fix this
sometime so I won't have to backup across the network to another machine
that uses the same tape drive sucessfully.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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