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Any relatively new binary distro causes kernel panics
I'm having trouble using any relatively new binary distro on this machine. The last binary distro to work without issue was Ubuntu 8.04. I'm currently using Gentoo with the latest 3.2.1 kernel and ...
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Trouble Logging Kernel Panic for Debugging
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 on AWS/EC2 and having a large number of hosts going belly up. I'm trying to enable kernel dumping, but when I simulate a kernel panic, there's no .crash file written anywhere ...
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How to edit grub2 to use kdump?
I was following http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_kdump_to_debug_kernel_crashes and in step 2 I need to add the line to grub.cfg, but grub.cfg is a shell I do not know how to edit it, most ...
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Using a custom name for root device in grub
I'm working on old distro ( slackware 8.1 ) using a kernel 2.4.37.9 and I have the following problem.
I want to use a custom name for boot device, say for example /dev/root1, which can replace the ...
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What kind of crash would crashdump fail to capture?
A freshly built machine running Ubuntu 12.10 64bit is hanging under seemingly random conditions. To debug this I've installed linux-crashdump, confirmed that the second kernel is loaded and a ...
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How to troubleshoot kernel panic on boot
I'm trying to run Debian Linux on a Nokia IP710 firewall, but I can't get it to boot correctly: kernel panic every time.
The firewall has a Pentium III 1Ghz and 512MB RAM. It has no vga, a very ...
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Editing isolinux leads to kernel panic error in Centos Live CD
I downloaded a CentOS Live CD and tried to customize features on it. The CD boots fine if I use it "as-is". If I edit "isolinux.cfg" to edit the change the title of the CD or the automatic boot time, ...
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Fedora 17 not booting
I just got GRUB to properly set the resolution, thanks to this wonderful answer. After selecting Fedora 17 and waiting a bit, this displays:
[ 0.752888] [Firmware Bug]: powernow-k8: No compatible ...
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Kernel Oops Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
I could really use some help reading a kernel oops dmesg. I get this error once every few hours. Sometimes the system freezes; sometimes not.
I would appreciate a swift kick in the right direction.
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