[Linux] oops! kernel panic'd

[Tom Schaefer]

It never ceases to amaze me that people swear by RHAT, and yet they have 
these really weird problems. I have NEVER EVER (since using Linux since '92) 
had the below mentioned problem with SuSE, Debian, Caldera and even FreeBSD 
or OpenBSD - and some of the others. RHAT is good at one thing, like MS, 
they excell at marketing a mediocre product.

Try downloading a boot diskette from another distro (Slackware even!) or use 
one of the mini distros like Tom Ohshers' Root Boot.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

It's a complete Linux distribution on one floppy and great for 
troubleshooting.

-t-



>From: "Charles Higgins" <chiggin63@hotmail.com>
>To: linux@flux.org
>Subject: Re: [Linux] oops! kernel panic'd
>Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:53:10 EDT
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>128 + 64 = 192
>:)
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>>From: Warren Pollans <cottage1@gate.net>
>>To: linux@flux.org
>>Subject: [Linux] oops! kernel panic'd
>>Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1980 15:07:54 -0500
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>>Hello again,
>>
>>I attempted to allow linux to see my extra 128M of memory by adding an
>>append statement to linux.conf indicating that I had 196M.  When I
>>rebooted, the kernel panic'd and the boot just stopped at that point.
>>By the way, memory test at startup indicated that there was 196608K - a
>>little less than 192M - not the 196M I have.  I had been warned about
>>that ...
>>
>>What I thought was my boot disk is the RH installation floppy.  I can't
>>seem tobreak out of the install program.  Neither can I interrupt the
>>boot process.
>>
>>OK!  Am I totally hosed, or is there some way to boot linux,  from a
>>floppy or from the HD into some sort of boot or single-user mode, so
>>that I can change linux.conf?
>>
>>As you might be able to tell, I've been able to get by with just adding
>>the packages I needed, and doing whatever I wanted to without having to
>>know very much about linux.  I believe my education is about to begin
>>8^).
>>
>>I have access to other linux boxes at work.
>>
>>I still appreciate the advice I had gotten.  It was my fault for not
>>being more careful/knowledgable before I changed linux.conf.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Warren
>>
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