Optional panic on boot

Thomas =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6nig?= (Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Thu, 14 Mar 1996 10:41:21 +0100 (MET)


I recently had Oopses scrolling by so fast that there was no way to
read them (with iBCS with 1.3.73). I finally solved this by adding

panic("Aborting, have fun");

to the end of die_if_kernel(), but I'd really have this as an option
for the command line or even something configurable via /proc. It makes
sending error reports under certain circumstances SO much easier :-)

As an unrelated item, are there any patches allowing the kernel itself
to dump core?

-- 
Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet.
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.