Now that I know enough to construct trivial scripts that reliably, repeatably, crash Linux-2.6.5 ... What do I do to make these crashes more observable? How do I capture the dmesg that led up to the crash? Google & marc.theaimsgroup are wrong to deny this a FAQ already answered somewhere, yes? Pat LaVarre -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/