Re: 2.4.20-rc4-ac1 SiS IDE driver troubles

Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:26:16 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > After booting and initscripts I get some kind of error like a BUG() but
> > I can't see what it is because it scrolls off with repeated "unable to
> > handle kernel paging request" messages. The first error shows a stack trace
> > (briefly) but all the rest just show the offsets without the text.
>
> Stick a while(1); at the end of the stack dump code and you should get
> jus tthe first oops you can read

You may want to block interrupts as well, I've used this trick (given by
akpm) before, and sometimes whatever is wrong will generate a double panic
on interrupt shortly after the first OOPS output.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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