What does it mean when your computer has a kernel panic?Does it equate to the windows BsoD?Also, what methods, tips, tricks are available to the user when a kernel panic strikes?
What is a kernel panic?
kernel panic
Kernel panic is the same as BSOD and is non-rescuable IIRC. However smaller failure is OOPS which denotes some error in kernel.You can use kexec which switches to new kernel on panic (you can threat it as fast reboot) - possibly getting meaningful dump of system to debug the problemYou can use panic parameter which reboots kernel after n seconds. You can instruct GRUB to switch to fallback kernel in such caseUse Magic SysRQ keys to print stack traces etc.