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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: panic for historical reasons
Date: 5 Mar 1996 22:21:43 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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kswanson@BLaCKSMITH.com writes:

> aic0 at 0x340-0x35f irq11 on isa sees the Sony CDROM scsi device target 5
> 
> the last line i see is:
> rootfs is 1000 Kbyte compiled in MFS
> 
> then the screen clears and i get the following message:
> 
> panic: panic for historical reasons

This message can be found inside the aic6360 driver.  The panic is
asserted whenever a fatal condition is encountered where the only
chance is to drop into the kernel debugger.

All of these messages are preceded by another message.  This one is
important in finding the source of your evil -- but you failed to tell
us about it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)