Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-20 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Linus, Could you apply his patch? On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:53:55PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > AFAIK most distros use CONFIG_PCI_GOANY, which causes the kernel to try to > > detect the PCI devices directly, and in case this fails, it

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-18 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:53:55PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > AFAIK most distros use CONFIG_PCI_GOANY, which causes the kernel to try to > detect the PCI devices directly, and in case this fails, it tries to > detect via BIOS. I thought so too from reading the help regarding this option,

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-18 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:53:55PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: AFAIK most distros use CONFIG_PCI_GOANY, which causes the kernel to try to detect the PCI devices directly, and in case this fails, it tries to detect via BIOS. I thought so too from reading the help regarding this option, but

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-17 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > [This is an aging thread where my old P75 machine oopsed early in > boot for both 2.4.0-XX and 2.2.17. Mike Galbraith helped me a lot > and among other things mailed me KDB, which, when enabled, made a > 2.4.0-test8 kernel boot.] > > Hi. > > I

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-17 Thread Rasmus Andersen
[This is an aging thread where my old P75 machine oopsed early in boot for both 2.4.0-XX and 2.2.17. Mike Galbraith helped me a lot and among other things mailed me KDB, which, when enabled, made a 2.4.0-test8 kernel boot.] Hi. I finally had some time to put printks into the kernel and that got

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-11 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 09:00:02PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > The symptom is _different_ than without the patch being applied? That > should be impossible. With Kernel Debugging disabled, the patch should > have zero effect.. you should have your original oops back. Yeah, sorry about that

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:40:25AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > > > [...] > > > So adding IKD to 2.4.0t8 made the initial oops go away/be hidden. > > > > The odd colours/chars are the print EIP

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-11 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:40:25AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > [...] > > So adding IKD to 2.4.0t8 made the initial oops go away/be hidden. > > The odd colours/chars are the print EIP feature in action. You should > almost never say yes to all

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-11 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:40:25AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: [...] So adding IKD to 2.4.0t8 made the initial oops go away/be hidden. The odd colours/chars are the print EIP feature in action. You should almost never say yes to all config

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-11 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:40:25AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: [...] So adding IKD to 2.4.0t8 made the initial oops go away/be hidden. The odd colours/chars are the print EIP feature in

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Hi. > > Interesting turn in my efforts to make linux boot on my newly acquired > old computer: Mike Galbraith offered me IKD for 2.4.0t8, which I > accepted and tried (I said yes to all the IKD config options). This > made 2.4.0t8 boot and get as

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-10 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. Interesting turn in my efforts to make linux boot on my newly acquired old computer: Mike Galbraith offered me IKD for 2.4.0t8, which I accepted and tried (I said yes to all the IKD config options). This made 2.4.0t8 boot and get as far as complaining about bad root fs (which is correct for

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Andrew Burgess wrote: > > > >Oops from 2.2.17 (some more before this, but it went offscreen): > ... > > You need to capture and decode the first oops. Compile a kernel with a > > serial console and capture the oops log on a second machine. > > Or set your console for more

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-10 Thread Rasmus Andersen
> Thats not the first oops yet, and as Keith told you, its useless. You are right and I fscked up. Apologies. This should be the first oops (from 2.2.17): ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.2.17pre13. Options used -V (specified) -K (specified) -L (specified) -O (specified) -m

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Andrew Burgess wrote: Oops from 2.2.17 (some more before this, but it went offscreen): ... You need to capture and decode the first oops. Compile a kernel with a serial console and capture the oops log on a second machine. Or set your console for more than 80x25

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-10 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. Interesting turn in my efforts to make linux boot on my newly acquired old computer: Mike Galbraith offered me IKD for 2.4.0t8, which I accepted and tried (I said yes to all the IKD config options). This made 2.4.0t8 boot and get as far as complaining about bad root fs (which is correct for

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-10 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: Hi. Interesting turn in my efforts to make linux boot on my newly acquired old computer: Mike Galbraith offered me IKD for 2.4.0t8, which I accepted and tried (I said yes to all the IKD config options). This made 2.4.0t8 boot and get as far as

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > > Code: 0f b6 0c 03 89 4c 24 14 51 68 8e e5 17 c0 e8 de a4 00 00 83 > >>EIP; c0107f27<= > Trace; c300 > Trace; c0107f85 Thats not the first oops yet, and as Keith told you, its useless. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-09 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On 0, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:48:51 +0200, > Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I just got hold of an old machine (P75, 32MB RAM). On trying to install > >RH 6.2 on it, I got an oops after loading the kernel from the boot floppy. > >I then tried

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-09 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On 0, Keith Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:48:51 +0200, Rasmus Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got hold of an old machine (P75, 32MB RAM). On trying to install RH 6.2 on it, I got an oops after loading the kernel from the boot floppy. I then tried to boot a

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: snip Code: 0f b6 0c 03 89 4c 24 14 51 68 8e e5 17 c0 e8 de a4 00 00 83 EIP; c0107f27 show_registers+237/268 = Trace; c300 END_OF_CODE+2e30398/ Trace; c0107f85 die+2d/38 Thats not the first oops yet, and as Keith told you, its

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-08 Thread Andrew Burgess
> >Oops from 2.2.17 (some more before this, but it went offscreen): ... > You need to capture and decode the first oops. Compile a kernel with a > serial console and capture the oops log on a second machine. Or set your console for more than 80x25 using SVGATextMode. I use

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-08 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 14:48:51 +0200, Rasmus Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I just got hold of an old machine (P75, 32MB RAM). On trying to install >RH 6.2 on it, I got an oops after loading the kernel from the boot floppy. >I then tried to boot a 2.4.0-test8-pre6 (made with make bzdisk), but

Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-08 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. I just got hold of an old machine (P75, 32MB RAM). On trying to install RH 6.2 on it, I got an oops after loading the kernel from the boot floppy. I then tried to boot a 2.4.0-test8-pre6 (made with make bzdisk), but got an oops. The same with 2.2.17. Any help would be appreciated. Oops

Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-08 Thread Rasmus Andersen
Hi. I just got hold of an old machine (P75, 32MB RAM). On trying to install RH 6.2 on it, I got an oops after loading the kernel from the boot floppy. I then tried to boot a 2.4.0-test8-pre6 (made with make bzdisk), but got an oops. The same with 2.2.17. Any help would be appreciated. Oops

Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6

2000-09-08 Thread Andrew Burgess
Oops from 2.2.17 (some more before this, but it went offscreen): ... You need to capture and decode the first oops. Compile a kernel with a serial console and capture the oops log on a second machine. Or set your console for more than 80x25 using SVGATextMode. I use /usr/sbin/SVGATextMode