HP 9000 Series Owner's Manual page 142

text of the panic message, just in case you need it for future troubleshooting or
help from HP service personnel.
Step 4: Rebooting Your System
Once you have checked for and corrected any problems from Step 3, you
are ready to reboot your system. You can reboot your system using the
TOC button on the back of the workstation. Otherwise, you can turn your
workstation o and then back on to initiate the boot sequence.
You will probably notice a few di erences in boot behavior as compared with
your normal boot sequence. Your workstation might save a \core" le to disk.
This core le is a \snapshot" of the previously running kernel at the time that
it panicked. If it becomes necessary, this core le can be analyzed using special
tools to determine more about what caused the panic.
Note
If the reason your system panicked was because of a corrupted le system,
will report the errors and any corrections it makes. If the problems were
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associated with your root le system,
when it's nished. When you do this, use the command:
reboot -n
The option tells reboot
-n
has made all the corrections on disk, you do not want to undo the
fsck
changes by writing over them with the corrupt memory bu ers.
7-18 Dealing With Problems
Core les are quite large and are saved to the directory
. If you feel you need to save these les for
/tmp/syscore
future analysis (something that isn't usually required), it is
best to save them to tape and remove them from your le
system in order to free up space. If you
panicked, you can delete the core les; it is unnecessary to keep
them. The core les are used in rare circumstances to diagnose
hard-to- nd causes of system panics.
not to sync the le system before rebooting. Since
know why your system
will ask you to reboot your system
fsck
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