[lug] windows reformatting linux disks?

Paul Walmsley shag-blug at booyaka.com
Wed May 1 08:14:15 MDT 2002


On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Neal McBurnett wrote:

> Now when I plug it back into linux, it causes a kernel error: "Apr 21
> 18:33:49 pearl kernel: sda:<1>Unable to handle kernel paging request
> at virtual address a05b05b1" and I can't see anything.

this is a kernel oops, which indicates a bug in the Linux kernel.
there should be a stack trace following this message, which could
help diagnose what's going on.

could you cut and paste the output of 'dmesg' after this happens?  also
'uname -a'?



- Paul




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