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sugar 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe
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i was trying to install linux on my switch, and got this,,, weird kernel panic back neocat_confused
a very confusing kernel panic with wrong characters everywhere saying stuff like "Harduare namd: NinteFdnSgitc* Lite"
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sugar 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe
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apparently this is normal, huh,,, (well, the corruption of kernel panics, not necessarily the kernel panic itself)

the reason why this happens is that on mariko switches (and all switch lites are mariko), on kernel panic the system is forcibly rebooted with a poweroff, the modchip is trying to boot into hekate, and then kernel log is read by hekate

poweroff means ram loses power, which means it slowly loses its contents
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illy [Shrimple-mode] protomoji_orange_flag_lesbian @illyBytes@shrimp.imsofucking.gay
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@sugar huh weird, you'd think it would try to save the log fully before force poweroff?
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sugar 🏳️‍🌈 @sugar@snug.moe
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@illyBytes the problem is that the kernel panic occured, so it's not exactly safe to do anything, and writing a kernel panic to an sd card would involve dealing with an sd card and the filesystem it uses
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illy [Shrimple-mode] protomoji_orange_flag_lesbian @illyBytes@shrimp.imsofucking.gay
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@sugar oh yeah true
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