Re: oops pauser. / boot_delayer

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 13:44 -0800, Kurtis D. Rader wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 06:11:05, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:30:16AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> >  > Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > > This one delays each printk() during boot by a variable time
> >  > > (from kernel command line), while system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING.
> >  >
> >  > This sounds a bit like a aprils fool joke, what it is meant to do? You can
> >  > read the messages in the bootlog and use the scrollback keys, no?
> > 
> > could be handy for those 'I see a few messages that scroll, and the
> > box instantly reboots' bugs.  Quite rare, but they do happen.
> 
> Another very common situation is a system which fails to boot due to
> failures to find the root filesystem. This can happen because of device name
> slippage, root disk not being found, the proper HBA driver isn't present in

mount by label fixes some of that but not all

> the initrd image, etc. The customer calls us and reports the last thing they
> see on the screen:

fwiw it would make sense (at least for distros) to make this print a
more helpful text about potential causes etc, rather than just making
people say "the kernel paniced".


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