Re: LK-FAQ: suggestion (Was: Re: Kernel Panic with 2.2.14pre6)
Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Wed, 24 Nov 1999 23:00:57 -0700
The Doctor What writes:
> * Emil S Hansen (laven.data@image.dk) [991119 17:05]:
> > Hello Linux users
> >
> > My kernel just gave me a Panic on my SMP box, /usr mounted over NFS.
>
> [snip]
>
> > My system is a dual Celeron-300@450, one IDE disk (VA34323A), two Ethernet
> > cards (via-rhine and 3c509B), SoundBlaster AWE64, one SCSI controller
> > (53c875) with a Plextor CD-ROM, and a MATUSHITA CD-Writer, my graphics card
> > is a Creative Voodoo Banshee.
>
> Richard/Andre:
>
> Would it be benificial to add subsection to the Linux Kernel FAQ
> (Under 4.3, I think), something like:
>
> There are some situations that make a kernel oops useless. The two
> most obvious are if your are overclocking your CPU or running
> VMWARE's vmmon. The reason is that overclocking can introduce
> random bit errors, while VMWARE's vmmon has the ability to (and
> does) change parts of the kernel. In both cases, data in the
> kernel, as reported by the oops, won't be useful.
Looks OK to me. I've grabbed it, thanks.
Regards,
Richard....
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