I crashed Linux

[mbrodeur at nexttime.com (Matthew J. Brodeur)]

On 7 Dec 2000, Derek Atkins wrote:

> John Chambers <jc at trillian.mit.edu> writes:
>
> This is a design flaw of the PC Architecture.  Other architectures
> have similar idiocies.  For example, on the Sun/Sparc architecture, if
> you unplug and then re-plug the keyboard into the CPU, the system will
> halt into the boot prom monitor, and you have to type "ok<return>" to
> get the system to continue running.


   Just to make Sun sound evern worse, this isn't a problem on _every_
Sparc machine. In my experience, this is only true on the machines that
you REALLY don't want it to happen on, like the sun4d (Dragon, SparcServer
1000) architecture. It seems that those machines won't even boot without a
keyboard attached, whereas our sun4m stuff (SparcStation 10/20) couldn't
care less.


-- 
     -Matt

Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.


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