*** please Cc to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when replying *** Hi, I sent a similar report a couple of weeks ago but got no response. Can Someone Who Knows (TM) please have a look at it and tell me what's wrong with this Olivetti Netstrada? It works with 2.2.18 but all the 2.4.x kernels didn't work so far. I tried also changing compile options, eliminating all that is not strictly necessary to boot, but got the same error. here is it: Linux version 2.4.2 (root@paperino) (gcc version 2.95.3 20010219 (prerelease)) #1 Fri Mar 16 15:23:30 CET 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e801: 000000000009f000 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e801: 0000000041505000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) Warning only 896MB will be used. Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel. On node 0 totalpages: 229376 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 225280 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=test ro root=802 BOOT_FILE=/vmlinuz.test console=ttyS0,9600 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 200.012 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 398.95 BogoMIPS Memory: 899624k/917504k available (1320k kernel code, 17492k reserved, 450k data, 84k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 8K, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0000fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 general protection fault: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c013d013>] EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 00000000 ebx: ffffffff ecx: 00000072 edx: c013cff4 esi: f7fbf000 edi: ffffffff ebp: f7fbf000 esp: c1efff2c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1eff000) Stack: 00000000 c1ef70c0 c0123d59 ffffffff c1ef70c0 00000001 c1ef70c0 00000246 00000007 c02b5538 00000001 c0123e3f c1ef70c0 00000007 c1ef6200 c1ef6200 00000000 c013da82 c1ef70c0 00000007 c1ef6200 c01e5543 c1ef6200 00000001 Call Trace: [<c0123d59>] [<c0123e3f>] [<c013da82>] [<c01e5543>] [<c012feac>] [<c0130432>] [<c0107007>] [<c0107424>] Code: f3 ab 8d 93 90 00 00 00 c7 83 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 8d 83 Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c013d013>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 00000000 ebx: ffffffff ecx: 00000072 edx: c013cff4 esi: f7fbf000 edi: ffffffff ebp: f7fbf000 esp: c1efff2c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1eff000) Stack: 00000000 c1ef70c0 c0123d59 ffffffff c1ef70c0 00000001 c1ef70c0 00000246 00000007 c02b5538 00000001 c0123e3f c1ef70c0 00000007 c1ef6200 c1ef6200 00000000 c013da82 c1ef70c0 00000007 c1ef6200 c01e5543 c1ef6200 00000001 Call Trace: [<c0123d59>] [<c0123e3f>] [<c013da82>] [<c01e5543>] [<c012feac>] [<c0130432>] [<c0107007>] [<c0107424>] Code: f3 ab 8d 93 90 00 00 00 c7 83 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 8d 83 >>EIP; c013d013 <init_once+1f/d0> <===== Trace; c0123d59 <kmem_cache_grow+169/208> Trace; c0123e3f <kmem_cache_alloc+47/54> Trace; c013da82 <get_empty_inode+e/84> Trace; c01e5543 <sockfs_read_super+b/a4> Trace; c012feac <read_super+100/170> Trace; c0130432 <kern_mount+2e/80> Trace; c0107007 <init+7/110> Trace; c0107424 <kernel_thread+28/38> Code; c013d013 <init_once+1f/d0> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c013d013 <init_once+1f/d0> <===== 0: f3 ab repz stos %eax,%es:(%edi) <===== Code; c013d015 <init_once+21/d0> 2: 8d 93 90 00 00 00 lea 0x90(%ebx),%edx Code; c013d01b <init_once+27/d0> 8: c7 83 90 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,0x90(%ebx) Code; c013d022 <init_once+2e/d0> f: 00 00 00 Code; c013d025 <init_once+31/d0> 12: 8d 83 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(%ebx),%eax Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! 970 warnings issued. Results may not be reliable. (this is because I ran it on a different machine, the system.map was the one from the crashing kernel, though) Also, I just realized that this stupid bios tells the kernel to have a lot of memory, while it only has 128 M (see the line just at the beginning of the boot output). here's what's inside this machine: root@mirror:~ # lspci -v 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 11) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ec00 Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Expansion ROM at de000000 [disabled] 00:05.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Intel Corporation 82375EB (rev 15) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 248 00:14.0 RAM memory: Intel Corporation 450KX/GX [Orion] - 82453KX/GX Memory controller (rev 05) Flags: fast devsel 00:19.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 450KX/GX [Orion] - 82454KX/GX PCI bridge (rev 06) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 96 00:1a.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 450KX/GX [Orion] - 82454KX/GX PCI bridge (rev 06) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 96 01:00.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U (rev 01) Subsystem: Adaptec: Unknown device 7880 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 96, IRQ 15 I/O ports at d400 Memory at dd000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1 I'm willing to do some tests, time permitting. Pf -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierfrancesco Caci | System Administrator @ seabone.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Telecom Italia S.p.A. - International Operations Linux paperino 2.4.2 #2 Thu Mar 8 15:21:54 CET 2001 i686 unknown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/