I've heard about a new patch that lets the kernel dump oopsen to a floppy,
and I'll try it. It scares me that I might accidentally leave a floppy in
the drive that actually has data.
As I said in a previous message to linux-kernel, I'd be happy to maintain
a bug database if that would be within my realm of comprehension (I don't
know very much about the kernel internals...).
The machine is a Cyrix 6x86MX (no SMP) running RedHat 5.1 with most of the
packages at either 5.2 or 6.0 versions. MTRR is enabled in the kernel but
I haven't used it for anything yet so I would assume that it is not
causing problems. I don't run X. No quotas.
[aaronl@vitelus aaronl]$ gcc --version
egcs-2.91.66
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> So why didn't you even include a ksymoops version of the crash? Or a good
> hardware description? People do try to follow it, but it's not as if I've
> seen very good reports even from people who say it's obviously bad. And
> others are completely unable to reproduce the problem, so..
>
> Right now the problem is (a) lack of good data and (b) the fact that there
> were very few changes between 2.2.7 (which many claim is stable) and 2.2.9
> (which many claim is broken). The major changes were actually just reverts
> of 2.2.8 (which _was_ badly broken due to fs) - the majority by far is
> actually ARM, Sparc, PPC and alpha merges..
>
> SMP?
>
> MTRR enabled?
>
> gcc version?
>
> Quotas?
>
> Linus
>
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