Messages in this thread | | | From | Rick Warner <> | Subject | Re: very strange issue with sata,<4G Ram, and ext3 | Date | Wed, 4 May 2005 15:29:54 -0400 |
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Just sending out a ping on this.. anyone have any ideas?
On Friday 29 April 2005 10:45 am, you wrote: > On Thursday 28 April 2005 06:48 pm, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Iau, 2005-04-28 at 17:16, Rick Warner wrote: > > > On these systems, we are getting ext2 errors from the initrd during > > > the untarring. Soon after, we start getting seg faults on random > > > things (looks like stuff caused by the still running dhcp client), and > > > then a continuous stream of segfaults on the restore script itself > > > (restore[1]). > > > > This sounds almost like the pxe/boot code is still using ram that the > > kernel has now used (eg the PXE layer or pxe booter forgot to close the > > client and > > its still DMAing happily into the kernel) > > This morning, we tried updating to a newer pxelinux (3.07) and had the same > results. We then tried using etherboot with a mknbi tagged image and also > had the same results. Since we are getting the same problem on 3 > different motherboards with 2 different network adapters, I have not looked > into updating the boot rom on the nics. Should I? > > What should I look into next? I have attached a serial console log of the > system and errors. The slashes and pipes you see are from a spinning bar > thing. If you want output that is cleaned up without that, I can provide > it.
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