RE: Crash on boot (2.4.5)

[Andy Ward]

Hmmmm...  haven't tried changing to non-AMD for the chip type...  I'll
try pentium later tonight and see if it works better.  Thanks for the
insight....

-- andyw

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Walter [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 3:42 PM
To: Andy Ward
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Crash on boot (2.4.5)

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:51:09PM -0500, Daniel Fraley wrote:
> Hi, everyone..  I'm borrowing my roommate's email, so please send
replies to
> [e-mail].  Thanks!
> 
> Here's my problem...  when I boot anything 2.4, I get several oopsen
in a
> row, all of which are either (most commonly) kernel paging request
could not
> be handled, or (much less common) unable to handle kernel Null pointer
> dereference.  I will send any info on request, but here's my hardware
and
> kernel config:
> 
> iWill KKR-266R (Via 8363 Northbridge, 686B south)
> AMD tbird 1GHz
> 256MB cas2 pc133 sdram
> ATI Radeon DDR 64MB VIVO
> Kingston KNE120TX (Realtek 8139 chip)
> SBLive! 5.1
> IBM GXP75 30GB (on the via ide controller)
> Pioneer 16x dvd
> ls120
> 
> This happens regardless if I turn on swap or not.  When swap is on, it
is a
> 128MB partition (and yes, I'm aware of the recommendation of 2x RAM,
but I
> believe I read somewhere that someone was working on that, and I
didn't want
> to waste the extra 384MB on swap).
> 
> Is there anything I can do to fix this?
> 
> -- andyw
> 
> p.s., booting with devfs=nomount is better, but still causes oopsen (I
get
> to a login prompt, but if I do much more than mount a disk a copy to
it, the
> system freaks)

problem.  As I've gathered, its some sort of interaction with that chip
and the 3DNow! fast copy routines the kernel uses.

If you compile the kernel for a 686, does the problem go away?  What
about 586 or lower?  If so, I believe there are some people working on
finding common aspects of the hardware that experience this problem,
though I don't remember who.  You should get in contact with them, or
they might get into contact with you.

Good luck on working this out.
-- 
-Steven
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			-- George Orwell