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From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sleep before boot panic
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 20:01:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801062001.15220.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200801061908.43010.bernd-schubert@gmx.de>

Hi Bernd,

On Sunday 06 January 2008, you wrote:
> Index: zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c
> ===================================================================
> --- zd1211rw.git.beno.orig/init/do_mounts.c	2008-01-06 18:44:23.000000000 
> +0100
> +++ zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c	2008-01-06 18:45:44.000000000 +0100
> @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@
>  		printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option; here are the 
> available partitions:\n");
>  
>  		printk_all_partitions();
> +		msleep(60 * 1000);

ssleep(60);

>  		panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
>  	}

Better would be for this and similiar panic()s
(fatal user/admin errors on boot) to NOT print a stack trace+registers,
since it is useless and actually hides useful information.


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-06 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-06 18:08 Bernd Schubert
2008-01-06 19:01 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2008-01-06 19:23   ` Bernd Schubert
2008-01-06 20:38     ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-07 20:41 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08  6:17   ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-08  6:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-08 16:06       ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-09 18:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-10 19:20           ` kinit (was: sleep before boot panic) Ingo Oeser
2008-01-08 16:11     ` sleep before boot panic Andi Kleen
2008-01-15  9:38 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <9II6K-1Pg-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <9IJ2M-3l2-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <9IJme-3Nb-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <9IKrY-5vk-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-01-07 11:47       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 15:03         ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-08 13:26           ` Bodo Eggert

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