Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote:
Thank you for this. While agree that there was a Kernel Paging Panic, I have not located the source of these panics. I appreciate your teeth gnashing, I'll continue to Gnaw away at the problems.On Tuesday 28 January 2003 04:08 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote:Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote:On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:03 pm, Albert E. Whale, CISSP wrote:I am curious as to Which OS Version you encountered this?[...]Really? Perhaps another problem to chalk up to the many with 2.4.19 (and higher) kernels? I encountered this problem with Mandrake 9.0 kernel-2.4.19-2mdk, customized build. I find I generally have to build my own kernel to get wireless working properly regardless of version but 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 have given me fits - problems with filesystem support (both XFS and RieserFS) and usb primarily. Supermount hasn't been too much of a problem for me as yet.[...]Are you indicating that 9.0 doesn't support anything other than ext2 or ext3? If so, Where's the BEEF? Do you have any Documentation available? I never got any answers from support either, must have been the Chapter 11 filing issues ..... Would like to get the 9.0 running on it, but I have no idea what will provide support for the ReiserFS filesystem.I didn't have any problems booting up and running my system (sans wireless lan) with the stock, prebuilt Mandrake 9.0 kernel. Upon building my own kernel (because I had to patch the kernel's hub.c to get wireless working) I lost the ability to bootup - my system was 100% XFS. Stock kernel, no problem, custom kernel built with gcc 3.2, problem. I then tried 2.4.20 from Cooker. Same thing only by that point I had decided to go to ReiserFS so I could use a kernel NOW rather than at some future point where, presumably, XFS support would be working again. I built the 2.4.20 kernel without hitch (using gcc 3.2 default) and rebooted. Kernel panic, couldn't handle XFS. I went back to the stock 9.0 kernel and did some digging. I then found that there are "issues" with gcc3.x and XFS. I then followed a suggestion to use gcc2.96 and the problem went away with regards to the XFS issue. I was having problems with the wireless device (WUSB11 v2.6) however and that was a showstopper. The problem was the kernel paging deal I mentioned. The STOCK Mandrake 9.0 2.4.19 kernel that came with the install (precompiled) was fine with regards to XFS, it was only when I tried to do what I always do and rebuild my own kernel with the default 9.0 gcc (3.2) that things went south. I have gotten my WUSB11 working after much pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth but I am not sure the kernel paging issue is really fixed or if it just decided not to rear its head with my last restart. praedor
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