On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Dave Huang wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > Data point: "fsck -p" has been panicing for me for longer than this
> > latest problem. I was always able to do a manual "fsck", however, and
> > then "mount -a". The thing with "fsck -p"  might be another problem
> > altogether.
> 
> I think I also had fsck -p problems, along with a problem with "disklabel
> sd1" (in my system with two disks) crashing the kernel many many months
> ago (1.3D, perhaps?) I don't think it was a panic, but a vm_fault. I was
> busy and didn't need the extra disk, so I just took it out of my fstab and
> didn't look into it any further.

There's still another known bug that affects disks with more than 7
partitions. Did the panics suddenly appear, on a disk that you were
using before? That's what happened to me.