Kernel panics

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 5:14 PM -0700 9/1/02, Mark Walker wrote:
>Would kernel panic of type as this: kernel access of bad area pc c0041c28 lr
>c003af6c address 5EAD0030 tsk updated/969 indicate bad RAM or bad blocks on
>the hard drive?

Doesn't necessarily mean either one.  That message gets printed when 
the kernel tries to do a memory access that is illegal.  For example, 
it could be an attempt to read or write a virtual address that there 
is no page table entry for, or a memory access that causes a page 
fault during an interrupt -- that kind of thing.

It's an error which could conceivably happen due to bad RAM or bad 
disk blocks, but is more likely to be a bug in the kernel somewhere.
-- 
Tim Seufert