[mdlug] hanging machine kernel panic

[Michael Mol]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Garry Stahl <tesral at wowway.com> wrote:
> On 02/12/2012 07:51 AM, Art Dries wrote:
>> Almost all kernel panics under Linux are hardware related
>>
> I had that one Thinkpad 600X that would kernel panic booting Ubuntu in a
> predicable 15 seconds, but would run anything else.  We never did sort
> that out.  Version didn't matter either.

Laptops have notoriously buggy BIOS. Walk through the kernel
configuration process end to end some time and note all the
workarounds. You can bet those systems were only tested against
Windows when they were designed, so it's likely anything that would
have tripped Windows was fixed. Not a Linux-hating thing, just bad Q/A
at the design stage.

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