Kevin Day wrote:
So, I recently built (and rebuilt) svn-20060220. Both times resulted in
the same kernel panic.
before goiung any further, stop.
Download something like the ultimate boot cd: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
And run memtest86+
(any/all of their memory testers depending on yopur level of paranoia)
I have seen some very strange things happen with compilation and memory issues.
And yes, I have successfully compiled an entire scratch system on a machine
with bad ram..when it comes to runtime or kernel compile, many strings things
happen.
This was the other class of recommendations that turned up when I
googled (the first was some problem with devices). I was inclined to
try it out second, only because the same machine reliably boots and runs
SVN-20060108. In my ignorance/naivete' it seemed odd that bad ram would
affect one version but not another.
I have new data, perhaps that bears on this. I copied over the 2.6.14.3
kernel from my svn-20060108 build, and it boots up and runs the rest of
the svn-20060220 build fine, every time. Every time I build the
2.6.14.6 kernel, it panics. In particular, the same .config file I used
for the .3 kernel (which works), when used to build a .6 kernel, panics
every time.
I'll give the memory a check, as you suggest. Perhaps something in the
more recent kernel is exposing something funky in the RAM that the
slightly older code isn't? Anyway, I'll check that next, while I'm
researching differences between the two kernel versions.
Thanks,
-jps
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