[plug] Kernel panic

[Scott, Simon]

I have yet to see a kernel panic due to anything other than
	a) Bad driver(s)
	b) most commonly, shitty hardware....ram is the best guess

> ------------------------------------------------------
>  Simon Scott
>  DBA
>  Sealcorp Holdings Limited
>  Perth, WA
>  e-mail:  simon.scott at sealcorp.com.au
>  phone:  08 9265 5648
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4.31 How many times can you re-use CD-RW before they become faulty? 
Good question. 
(Linux CD-Writing HOWTO,
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.31)




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Damion Hill [mailto:dhill at wantree.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 27 April 2000 10:37
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] Kernel panic
> 
> 
> I have a query regarding kernel panic and the sort of thing that 
> causes it.
> 
> I'm configuring a Debian box at present and have just walked in to 
> find the kernel panic message on screen saying that the free list is 
> corrupted. The box was doing nothing other than waiting for me to 
> keep making choices in dselect. I'm guessing that the problem 
> could be RAM related but I don't know for sure.
> 
> What sort of issues cause a kernel panic?
> 
> Cheers,
> Damion.
> 
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> Damion Hill
> dhill at wantree.com.au
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