One of the machines on the network started beeping continuously and was unresponsive locally as well over the network. We shut it down keeping power pressed. Upon reboot, the boot stopped with Kernel panic - not syncing: BRKADRINT
the message previous was dealing with aic79xx
. No dmesg
log was produced, so this is just read from screen. After rebooting a few more times, it booted successfully.
Is there any way of finding out what caused it to beep/freeze? Apparently, the user of the computer saw the kernel panic
message before. Not sure what could cause this, esp. since it's not consistent. Any ideas?
The machine is running Debian Squeeze 2.6.32-5-amd64
.