Kernel Crash, what is this?!... (w/ big P.S.)

[Dave Jones]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:32:38AM -0400, msowka at rogers.com wrote:
 > ... haven't seen Linux crash on me since RH8! ;)
 > 
 > Here is the scoop, pretty simple, folks:
 > 
 > I mount my /media/cdrecorder, do 'cp -r
 > /media/cdrecorder ~/Media' (or via nautilus) and the
 > system crashes; every time, totally reproducible,
 > without a fault.

Does it always fail on the same file if you cp -rv  ?

 > When I do it in tty1 I see a bunch of messages, with
 > the last one being <*****> unknown_bootoption****. (I
 > can give more detailed report if required)

that sounds like the tail-end of an oops. please try
to capture the full dump, and put it in bugzilla.
(if it scrolls off the top of the screen at all, boot
 with vga=1 (or vga=791) to get more lines)

		Dave