Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 May 2002 12:14:00 +0200 | From | Wilfried Weissmann <> | Subject | Re: BUG? |
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alex-n@ua.fm wrote: > Dear Sirs, > this can be lamer's question (I'm sorry rite now!), but... > > The report itself is: > > ################################################################################ > > [1.] Linux crashes at the 'interactive startup' boot stage. > > [2.] Once the system is trying to boot, first stage (which is > *before* msg 'Interactive startup') it is all O.K. Once the > 'Interactive startup' stage begins, the bootstrap process > fails with diffirent msgs; all of them begins with "Unable > to handle kernel paging request at address..." or "Unable > to handle kernel dereference at address..." (first 'reason' > is in the majority of cases, the second is quite unusual). > > It seems to me that this is a trouble with initrd.img, > because once I've recompiled kernel with ALL OPTIONS (not > suitable to my hardware, i.e. SCSI adapters) turned OFF, > the problem remains. [snip]
2.4.7 does not have some VIA chipset workarounds that caused oopses when the kernel was compiled with K7 optimization. So set the optimization to AMD K6 or use a more recent kernel version. I think 2.4.16 and later versions have fixed this problem.
hope this helps, Wilfried
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