Le Mardi 21 Janvier 2003 23:03, Pascal a �crit :
> Le Mardi 21 Janvier 2003 19:32, Chmouel Boudjnah a �crit :
> > Pascal Cavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Le Mardi 21 Janvier 2003 16:53, Chmouel Boudjnah a �crit :
> > >> Pascal Cavy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >> > hum, the panic occurs in /etc/rc.sysinit during the mv of the
> > >> > ksyms.? files so I don't have any oops file available.
> > >>
> > >> and do you have any others information message or which process ?
> > >
> > > I've got the console output on a tty now. attached.
> >
> > look like he doen't like the optimisation of hard drive, what is that
> > stuff ?
>
> humm could this trigger the kernel panic... I'll try tomorrow to remove
> this file at the office. I don't have it on my home machine.
>
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/harddisks
> # These options are used to tune the hard drives -
> # read the hdparm man page for more information
>
> # Set this to 1 to enable DMA. This might cause some
> # data corruption on certain chipset / hard drive
> # combinations. This is used with the "-d" option
>
> USE_DMA=1
>
> # Multiple sector I/O. a feature of most modern IDE hard drives,
> # permitting the transfer of multiple sectors per I/O interrupt,
> # rather than the usual one sector per interrupt.  When this feature
> # is enabled, it typically reduces operating system overhead for disk
> # I/O by 30-50%.  On many systems, it also provides increased data
> # throughput of anywhere from 5% to 50%.  Some drives, however (most
> # notably the WD Caviar series), seem to run slower with multiple mode
> # enabled. Under rare circumstances, such failures can result in
> # massive filesystem corruption. USE WITH CAUTION AND BACKUP.
> # This is the sector count for multiple sector I/O - the "-m" option
> #
> MULTIPLE_IO=16
>
> # (E)IDE 32-bit I/O support (to interface card)
> #
> # EIDE_32BIT=3
>
> # Enable drive read-lookahead
> #
> # LOOKAHEAD=1
>
> # Add extra parameters here if wanted
> # On reasonably new hardware, you may want to try -X66, -X67 or -X68
> # Other flags you might want to experiment with are -u1, -a and -m
> # See the hdparm manpage (man hdparm) for details and more options.
> #
> EXTRA_PARAMS=

removing this script (harddisks) from /etc/sysinit solved the kernel panic 
problem.

However, on my 2 machines (same motherboard and proc) I have to reboot 
sometimes 2 or 3 times for the boot to complete. It stops somewhere at random 
places after setting keytable (time dependent problem ?)

-- 
Pascal Cavy - VMF
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