Re: What kernel to use to install RH on a R4400 ?

[Alexander Graefe <nachtfalke@usa.net>]

On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 04:39:51AM +0100, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:

>  - the exact screen output.  Especially the register dump following the
>    Aiee message is important.

kernel 2.1.100 (the one from the HardHat.tgz)
---snip---
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem)
Adv: done running setup()
Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
page fault from irq handler: 0000
$0 : 00000000 88180000 0000062d 00000000
$4 : 00000000 1004fc00 00000000 00000000
$8 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 abf3f822
$12: 6f2e7072 8bf3d87c 8bf3d800 00000000
$16: 8bf4f000 8bf3b220 0000062d 8815238c
$20: abf4f040 bfb94000 00000000 bfbd4000
$24: 00000000 8bf85b58
$28: 88008000 88009d90 0000000e 880e3f38
epc   : 880e3e74
Status: 1004fc02
Cause : 00000008
Aiee, killing interrupt handler.
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
---snip---

And then the machine stops dead.

>  - the output of the hinv command.  Hinv is an IRIX command.

Output from hinv:
---snip---
Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 4.1.0
1 200 MHZ IP22 Processor
FPU: MIPS R4000 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 0.0
CPU: MIPS R4400 Processor Chip Revision: 6.0
On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Data cache size: 16 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
Main memory size: 64 Mbytes
Integral ISDN: Basic Rate Interface unit 0, revision 1.0
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D
Disk drive / removable media: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Graphics board: Indy 8-bit
Vino video: unit 0, revision 0, IndyCam connected
---snip---

Bye,
	LeX
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