linux-kernel - Re: sleep before boot panic

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <p731w8ts70k.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:41:31 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@....de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sleep before boot panic

Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@....de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just switched to libata (pata) on my laptop and the immediate panic made it 
> impossible to figure out why my boot partition wasn't available.
> After applying this little patch I could check boot printk output and then saw 
> everything was properly recognized and only scsi-disk support was missing.

The correct fix would be to make scroll back (and sysrq) still work
after panic.  It's a little more complicated, but possible (essentially
it needs a polled keyboard handler)

-Andi
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/