Re: [half-joke] Help - someone turned my machine into xt emulating 386 using bochs...

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!
> 
> Strange thing happened: My machine appeared to lock up. I tried to
> switch consoles, and nothing happened.... Up to now. Now I see
> consoles redrawing on vesab, at speed around 5 characters per
> second. [Yes, I can see letters being erased].
> 
> That's little slow for 300MHz celeron... I hope.
> 
> [Just before "incident", I turned of sharp zaurus; maybe it was
> connected using usbnet and now uhci is eating all the bandwidht?
> Anyone seen this before?]

Hmm, Now I see some messages (printed at 5 characters per second, will
press reset sooon.

events/0: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20
drivers/usb/net/usbnet.c: usb0: kevent 2 may have been dropped
....

time for reset.

Hmm, I managed to press magic-s....
Syncing device ide0(3,1) ... pdflush: page allocation
failure. order:3, mode:0x20. [Hey, I can type messages as fast as they
are coming :-)]

time for *hard* reset I guess. [I wish I had videocamera for this.]
								Pavel
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