On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, meierjo wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way (or an option in lilo) to have the machine
> reboot if it gets stuck in a Panic?
Normally I'd say to echo a number to /proc/sys/kernel/panic, which will
be the number of seconds the system will wait after a panic before
rebooting, but that'd generally be set after the RAID subsystem was
loaded. A bit of Googling comes up with some people saying that appending
"panic=N" to the kernel boot command line will do the same. I just tested
this, albeit on a pretty obscure platform (2.6 kernel on sparc32), and it
seems to set /proc/sys/kernel/panic properly. Neat.
So I'd add:
append="panic=60"
or such to your lilo.conf.
One thing that people seem to warn on the subject is that a panic doesn't
always trigger a reboot. It's panicking, after all. But that should
help, at the least.
Jima
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