Re: How to force a kernel panic ?

Jason Burrell (jburrell@crl.crl.com)
Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:30:36 -0600 (CST)


On Sat, 11 Jan 1997, Steffan Henke wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I've just recently added the panic parameter to my lilo.conf and would
> like to try out if it works. Unfortunately (?), I haven't had a kernel
> panic for a while now. How can one be forced ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steffan

You could hack up the source for a module or something so that it calls
panic() when the module is inserted. I'm making the assumptions that
modules _have_ to have the ability to call a kernel panic.

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