Trying to boot gentoo-grp-i686-1.4_rc2 install CD on an old digital PRIORIS XL 6200 (200 Mhz PPro). Splash sceen and boot prompt work fine; kernel panic soon after proceeding to boot. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just try to boot from the CD 2. "noapic" option doesn't seem to make any difference 3. Actual Results: typed in from console boot log: CPU0: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 733.84 usecs. SMP motherboard not detected. kernel BUG at apic.c:288! invalid operand: 0 CPU: 0 EIP: 10:[<80396c59>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 10246 eax: f ebx: 23796 ecx: ffffffff edx: 0 esi: ddb698 edi: c6 ebp: 10624dd3 esp: 8038dfbc ds: 18 es: 18 ss: 18 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=8038d000) Stack: ff 23796 ddb698 80397299 8039530e 80303fe0 24 802fe7b8 59800 0 4e000 8038e2ab bc614e 803b53c0 0 80105000 801001c9 Call Trace: Code: f b 20 1 77 a 30 80 b8 ff ff ff ff 87 5 e0 e0 ff ff bb <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In idle task - not syncing Expected Results: booted and began install Same issue seems present in RH 8.0 but RH 7.3 seems to work on this system.
god i love the BUG() function
Is anybody on the kernel team actually looking into this bug? Could it be fixed by disabling IO-APIC support in the ISO kernel and using only XT-PIC? This would mean that the ISO kernel would only support uniprocessor... Alternatively is it possible to supply two kernels on the ISO image, one for SMP and one works-on-everything uniprocessor kernel? Does anybody have suggestions to workaround this bug so Bill can install? For example, is it possible to boot from a RH 7.x CD (do they use 2.4.x kernels?) to bootstrap? Any hints on how to go about that?
Bill, this bug doesn't seem to be getting a lot of attention... ;-) I know our kernel guys are pretty busy working on getting 1.4 out the door. For your situation, I'd suggest: 1. pull the hard drive and stick it in another (faster) machine 2. install Gentoo and build the kernel without IO-APIC support 3. move the hard drive back Aron
I asked Bill to give the following URL a try: www.gentoo.org/~livewire/livecd-x86-xfs-sources_pre6.iso He reported back to me that this kernel properly boots his system. Now the question is whether or not this kernel will appear on the 1.4 CD.
why was this assigned to release@gentoo.org (this new?)
I don't know why it was assigned to release. How should x86 kernel issues generally be assigned?
livecd kernel issues should be assigned to me, all other kernel issues should be assigned to kernel maintainer ie: gentoo-sources to lostlogic xfs-sources to me
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