[parisc-linux] Re: Kernel faults on boot

[Richard Hirst]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 01:54:16PM +0200, Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Richard Hirst wrote:
> 
> > boot to a shell
> > e2fsck /dev/sda<whatever your root device is>
> > mount -o remount,rw /
> > mv /usr/sbin/cron /usr/sbin/cron.ori
> > sync
> > mount -o remount,ro /
> > hit the reset button and try a normal boot again
> 
> If I take cron out like that, then the next job (atd) is the one
> which triggers the kernel fault. An error message about problems
> with <sth>cron / <sth>atd is displayed, but I am never fast enough
> to read and unterstand it entirely, before the stack dump causes it
> to scroll off the screen.
> 
> Is it normal for PA-RISC Linux, that the typical Linux Key-Combo
> <Shift>-<PgUp/Down> does not work on the console? Or is that even
> normal for Debian?

I wouldn't expect that to work once the kernel has crashed, unfortunately.

Richard