Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce panic_gently

2007-07-08 Thread Clemens Koller
Chuck Ebbert schrieb: On 07/06/2007 03:57 AM, Clemens Koller wrote: The 180seconds reboot timeout also doesn't make sense here. The problem won't go away after a reboot without user interaction. What about GRUB fallbacks? The fallback image/kernel will start automatically on reboot if you use

Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce panic_gently

2007-07-06 Thread Oleg Verych
* Andi Kleen (06 Jul 2007 14:03:05 +0200) >> The 180seconds reboot timeout also doesn't make sense here. The problem >> won't go away after a reboot without user interaction. > > It will when lilo -R/grubonce were used or the NFS server fixed itself > on nfs root or ... There can be many reasons f

Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce panic_gently

2007-07-06 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 07/06/2007 03:57 AM, Clemens Koller wrote: > Bodo Eggert schrieb: >> If the boot process failes to find init or the root fs, the cause has >> usually scrolled off the screen, and because of the panic, it can't be >> reached anymore. >> >> This patch introduces panic_gently, which will allow to u

Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce panic_gently

2007-07-06 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If the boot process failes to find init or the root fs, the cause has > > usually scrolled off the screen, and because of the panic, it can't be > > reached anymore. > > > > This patch introduces panic_gently

Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce panic_gently

2007-07-06 Thread Andi Kleen
Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the boot process failes to find init or the root fs, the cause has > usually scrolled off the screen, and because of the panic, it can't be > reached anymore. > > This patch introduces panic_gently, which will allow to use the scrollback > buffer an

Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce panic_gently

2007-07-06 Thread Andi Kleen
Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bodo Eggert schrieb: > > If the boot process failes to find init or the root fs, the cause > > has usually scrolled off the screen, and because of the panic, it > > can't be reached anymore. > > This patch introduces panic_gently, which will allow to us

Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce panic_gently

2007-07-06 Thread Clemens Koller
Bodo Eggert schrieb: If the boot process failes to find init or the root fs, the cause has usually scrolled off the screen, and because of the panic, it can't be reached anymore. This patch introduces panic_gently, which will allow to use the scrollback buffer and to reboot, but it can't be c

[RFC][PATCH] introduce panic_gently

2007-07-05 Thread Bodo Eggert
If the boot process failes to find init or the root fs, the cause has usually scrolled off the screen, and because of the panic, it can't be reached anymore. This patch introduces panic_gently, which will allow to use the scrollback buffer and to reboot, but it can't be called from unsafe conte