Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:41:43 +0300 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: early exception error |
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[david@lang.hm - Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:31:28PM -0800] > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > >> [david@lang.hm - Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:21:10PM -0800] >>> I'm trying to upgrade a older dual opteron box to a current 64 bit >>> system, but I'm getting early exception errors from several different >>> kernels >>> >>> I tried the ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 disks, and then I decided to try hunting >>> it down myself, so I took my 2.6.25 32 bit config copied it to a 64 bit >>> system and did a make oldconfig with 2.6.28 and am getting the same type >>> of error (the address changes from kernel to kernel and config to config >>> on the same kernel) >>> >>> doing a grep through System.map for the address that appears in the error >>> returns nothing >>> >>> attached are snapshots of the screen when the error happens and two >>> different configs with the same error (I tried disabling high-res timers, >>> tickless operation, and PAT, but got the same error), the 28 image is the >>> -2 config. >>> >>> where do I go from here to track this down? >>> >>> David Lang >> ... >> >> Hi David, >> >> not sure if it's the same but I've got similar errors for >> early_params being not capable to handle null passed args. >> What is the cmdline? It seems to be framebuffer related. >> But otoh I could be just wrong. > > very trivial > > grep -v "^#" /etc/lilo.conf > boot = /dev/sda > message = /boot/boot_message.txt > prompt > compact > timeout = 1200 > change-rules > reset > vga = ask > image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-64-2 > root = /dev/sda2 > label = 2.6.28-64 > > I trimmed the additional boot images from this. > > David Lang >
thanks David, will try to reproduce it
- Cyrill -
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