Re: BUG?

[Wilfried Weissmann <Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at>]

alex-n@ua.fm wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
> this can be lamer's question (I'm sorry rite now!), but...
> 
> The report itself is:
> 
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> 
> [1.] Linux crashes at the 'interactive startup' boot stage.
> 
> [2.] Once the system is trying to boot, first stage (which is
>      *before* msg 'Interactive startup') it is all O.K. Once the
>      'Interactive startup' stage begins, the bootstrap process
>      fails with diffirent msgs; all of them begins with "Unable
>      to handle kernel paging request at address..." or "Unable
>      to handle kernel dereference at address..." (first 'reason'
>      is in the majority of cases, the second is quite unusual).
> 
>      It seems to me that this is a trouble with initrd.img,
>      because once I've recompiled kernel with ALL OPTIONS (not
>      suitable to my hardware, i.e. SCSI adapters) turned OFF,
>      the problem remains.
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2.4.7 does not have some VIA chipset workarounds that caused oopses when 
the kernel was compiled with K7 optimization. So set the optimization to 
AMD K6 or use a more recent kernel version. I think 2.4.16 and later 
versions have fixed this problem.

hope this helps,
Wilfried