problem with Kernel 2.6.23-6.fc8

[Scott Berry]

Hi Dave,

Just a learning experience here does vga=791 mean 791 lines of text on 
the screen?

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 03:01:57PM -0700, Peter Gordon wrote:
>  > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 14:15 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
>  > > On the keyboard the Caps Lock and  Scroll Lock keep flashing.
>  > 
>  > This is a primary indicator that you're experiencing a kernel panic.
>  > When you reboot, is there anything suspicious near the end of
>  > your /var/log/messages file? (Hopefully, the kernel was able to dump a
>  > stacktrace of the panic, or what may have caused it, etc.)
>
> Chances are, at that stage of boot sysklogd isn't running.
> Even if it is, the chances of the kernel panic hitting the logs
> are extremely slim (we tend to lock up instantly, and ext3
> needs at least 5 seconds for something to hit the disk).
>
> To get better debug data from this, I suggest turning off
> rhgb (remove it from the grub command line), and booting with
> vga=791 to get more lines of text onscreen.  Hopefully
> that will then lockup with the panic onscreen where it
> can be captured with a digital camera (or worse case, by hand)
>
> 	Dave
>
>   


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Scott Berry
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