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Kernel Panic from hell | 13 comments (13 topical, 0 hidden)
A shot in the dark: (none / 0) (#2)
by vegetablespork on Sat Nov 16, 2002 at 04:10:46 PM GMT

your boot loader might be passing a parameter related to the absent hardware (e.g. hdd=ide-scsi). Not sure whether this would cause a kernel panic in the absence of /dev/hdd or not, but it's the only thing I can think of this early on a Saturday morning.

Good luck!



correct (none / 0) (#9)
by handybundler on Sun Nov 17, 2002 at 12:12:08 AM GMT

in a way. The problem is IDE 1 vs 2. I switched the cables because Linux couldn't find C. The boot sequence was seeing the drives as A and B, not C and D. Easily solved human error.

The kernel actually did not scoff at the absence of the CDR before or after I swapped the cables (yeah, I do read the scrolling messages, thanks skeptics!), so no problem there. Booted fine after wards. I did get asked if I wanted to disable a USB profile for a mouse that I had removed. I had a track ball mouse and a regular mouse hooked up to the same machine The track ball now sits on another machine.

The question of whether or not Linux is capable of recognizing hardware presence or absence is really not an issue any more. Unless you like to use software driven winmodems or other proprietary driver dependent hardware. Then that's what I refer to as stupidity.

Note: this box and all others I have had loaded with Linux have never had a problem seeing any PCI, AGP, or ISA card present. Because I chose the hardware carefully, and not blindly expecting the flashy box that the stupid piece of crap came in to represent the product inside. Except if you want to count my old US Robotics 56k POS winmodem.



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Damn. Trolling your own line, and yet, (none / 0) (#13)
by arcadum on Sun Nov 17, 2002 at 05:48:35 AM GMT

I felt the sensation that one gets when they try too look back into their brain. <P> You are a legend.

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Owned. (none / 0) (#10)
by tacomacide on Sun Nov 17, 2002 at 01:05:13 AM GMT

I have a pctel 789 and it's drivers shit all over themselves when I burn CDs at 12x or higher. Sad but true.

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