For a friend of mine I ask you for help on a Gentoo-install on an old
computer. I already tried in alt.os.linux.gentoo, but the answer(s) didn't help.
The problem is this:
Hardware: Pentium 120 with Intel FX chipset Distribution: Gentoo 1.4
The Gentoo-boot-CD boots successful. When checking for PCI-bus the correct chipset is detected and the PIIX-driver is loaded. But when building the kernel (PIIX-chipset-driver compiled into kernel) the (very same) chipset-detection ends in a kernel panic!
My friend tried following options for "PCI Access Mode": "BIOS" and "ANY" - but neither works. Instead the error message is:
PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus00) Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual adress xxxxxxxx printing eip: : : <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
Even the option "Direct" fails, but produces a different error message:
PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus00) general protection fault ac00 CPU: 0: : <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
The used kernel sources are "gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r6" and "vanilla-sources 2.4.22".
Further parameter that might be of interest: Processor-Type: Pentium-Classic (kernel appropriately configured) gcc options: -O3 -march=pentium
Has anyone any idea on that problem. Particularly since the install-CD-kernel works fine at that point. Messages then:
PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0 PCI : Using configuration type 1 PCI : probing PCI hardware PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries PCI : probing hardware (bus00) PCI : Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/122e] at 00:07.0
THX4help, Frank.
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