Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:08:44 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.21 Instant death |
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linux-2.1.21 fails to boot with an Ooops with a NULL-pointer dereference from process swapper, pid 1. This happens just before, but prior to mounting the root file-system.
I attempted to start the system with /etc/rc.d/rc.S simply executing /bin/bash before anything else, i.e., no swap, no fsck, etc. It still failed.
This is my hardware (ignore the date, it hasn't changed)
Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0xc00fcb80 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf7972 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf7b5a Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Probing PCI hardware. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 66.15 BogoMIPS Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Memory: 14608k/16384k available (864k kernel code, 384k reserved, 528k data) Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.037 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP, IPIP Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Linux version 2.1.16 (root@chaos) (gcc version 2.7.2) #4 Thu Dec 19 17:16:36 EST 1996 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.07 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: AHA-2940 (PCI-bus), I/O 0xf800, Mem 0xfbfff000: Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: irq 9 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: bus release time 40 bclks Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: data fifo threshold 100 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: SCSI CHANNEL A: Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi id 7 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi selection timeout 256 ms Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi bus reset at power-on enabled Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi bus parity enabled Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi bus termination (low byte) disabled Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: aic7xxx: Resetting the SCSI bus...done. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.0/3.2/4.0 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi : 1 host. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi0: Target 0, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Vendor: Quantum Model: XP32150W Rev: L912 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi0: Target 1, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Vendor: Quantum Model: XP32150W Rev: L912 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi0: Target 4, channel A, now synchronous at 4.0MHz, offset 15. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3601TA Rev: 1885 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi0: Target 6, channel A, now synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL_TM1280S Rev: 300N Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Detected scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 3 SCSI disks total. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4406960 [2151 MB] [2.2 GB] Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4406960 [2151 MB] [2.2 GB] Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: SCSI device sdc: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2503872 [1222 MB] [1.2 GB] Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov) Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: 08 00 00 12 35 99 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Partition check: Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 > Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: sdc: sdc1 sdc2 sdc3 Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Dec 26 13:26:21 chaos kernel: Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
processor : 0 cpu : 586 model : Pentium 75+ vendor_id : GenuineIntel stepping : 12 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid : yes wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 bogomips : 66.15
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 31481856 12304384 19177472 6303744 2793472 4829184 Swap: 74022912 0 74022912 MemTotal: 30744 kB MemFree: 18728 kB MemShared: 6156 kB Buffers: 2728 kB Cached: 4716 kB SwapTotal: 72288 kB SwapFree: 72288 kB
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