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 t

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

2000-09-17 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote: > Also (for Mike Galbraith): Why did the KDB make a difference in > this case? I could not this any code it touched in the vicinity > of pcibios_init(). But I probably did not look hard enough. I looked all over the place for an explanation. Elves and

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 fina

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 featu

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 con

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

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 i

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 ../l

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 l

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

2000-09-08 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/SVGATextMo

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