Bug 56004 – Kernel painc (paging request) trying to boot 2004.1 live cd on a Gateway computer (i8k: vendor=Gateway, model=; version=4W4S)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Andrew Smith 2004-07-03 17:06:23 UTC]

Trying to boot off the 2004.1 live CD produces a kernel panic with the following output to the screen

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 122x43
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
toshiba: not a supported Toshiba laptop
i8k: not running on a Dell system
i8k: vendor=Gateway, model=; version=4W4S
Unable to handel kernel paging request at virtual address 0000ff00
 printing eip:
c032524c
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c032524c>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: 0000ff00   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 0000ffff   edx: 00000000
esi: 00000000   edi: d7ff1fa8   edp: 0000ff00   esp: d7ff1f50
ds: 0018   es:0018    ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=d7ff1000)
Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000 d7ff1f90 c03253d3 d7ff1da8 0000ff00 d7ff1f90
       00000286 0000ffa3 00000000 c014ffb0 d7ff1fa8 0002e000 c032439f d7ff1f90
       0000ffa3 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c0448d20 c0112000
Call Trace:    [<c03253d3>] [<c032439f>] [<c01b02aa>] [<c01b2257>] [<c01b028c>]

Code: c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 8b 44 24 1c c7 00 00 00 00 00 0f b7 47
 <0>Kernel panic: Attempting to kill init!

I've tried both with gentoo and gentoo-nofb and also with noapic, all produce the same results.

Computer is a Gateway, 8 GB hard drive, 384 MB ram (in memtest86 all tests were passed) running a P3 550 MHz.

Any more info required just ask

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-03 17:22:24 UTC]

What if you use one of the disks located at /experimental/x86/livecd/x86 on your local Gentoo mirror?

[Comment 2 Andrew Smith 2004-07-04 17:30:30 UTC]

I tried with the 2.004.2-test7 ISO and it booted to the prompt fine. I did however notice that it booted using the smp kernel and not the gentoo default. I then tried the 2004.1 CD again with the smp kernel and that also booted fine, so I believe it's something to do with the gentoo kernel specifically. Since there is no gentoo kernel on the 2004.2 test7 iso I can't test it on there.

[Comment 3 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-05 09:39:10 UTC]

If you read the README, you will see that the 2004.2-test series is 2 kernels on the even versions (-test6) and 1 kernel on the odd versions (-test7).  I am starting testing on only having a single kernel on the CD, which is the reason for the two ISO images.

[Comment 4 Andrew Smith 2004-07-15 14:56:14 UTC]

Yes, sorry, completely missed that. I've now tested with the -test6 liveCD (had 'net problems, hence delay) and it booted correctly using the 'gentoo' kernel.

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2004-07-16 03:43:20 UTC]

Sweet, thanks...