* Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:14:04AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > One (mostly psychological, but still serious) problem is that stack
> > dumps make panics always look like kernel bugs. But there are panics
> > which are definitely not kernel bugs: like the popular cannot mount
> > root or machine checks or a couple of others.
>
> But that one really shouldn't be a panic anyway. The panic alone is
> psycologically bad enough for users. I think it would be best to have
> a simple scanf loop asking for another root device..
yep. Steve's patch looks good in any case.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ingo
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