kernel panic at boot

kernel panic at boot

[Ryan Cresawn]

I have just acquired an Ultra 2 Creator 3D and am attempting a network 
installation.  The kernel will partially boot when I run "boot net",
however it panics and I'm not sure why.  Here are the last messages
before the computer freezes.

  Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.20
  Kernel panic: zilog: address property
  Press L1-A to return to the boot prom

...but at this point the computer is frozen solid and a message at the 
top of the screen in the normal console font reads...

  WHOOPS: proplen for address was -1, need multiple of 4

Has anyone seen this error before?  If this is documented please tell
me where so that I may read the documentation.

-- 
Ryan

Re: kernel panic at boot

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> I have just acquired an Ultra 2 Creator 3D and am attempting a network 
> installation.  The kernel will partially boot when I run "boot net",
> however it panics and I'm not sure why.  Here are the last messages
> before the computer freezes.
> 
>   Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.20
>   Kernel panic: zilog: address property
>   Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
> 
> ...but at this point the computer is frozen solid and a message at the 
> top of the screen in the normal console font reads...
> 
>   WHOOPS: proplen for address was -1, need multiple of 4
> 
> Has anyone seen this error before?  If this is documented please tell
> me where so that I may read the documentation.

This is fixed in latest CVS kernels. If you can, compile them yourself, if
you cannot, wait a few days till we make images.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
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kernel panic at boot

[navneet panda]

Hi

My HP ZE 5170 laptop has RH9 with gcc
gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)

grub.conf reads 

title Red Hat Linux (2.6.0-test1-ac1)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-test1-ac1 ro
root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi idebus=66
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.0-test1-ac1.img
 
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.9)
        root (hd0,5)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.9 ro
root=/dev/hda6 hdc=ide-scsi idebus=66
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-18.9.img
 
title Debian
        root (hd0,3)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
root=/dev/hda4 hdc=ide-scsi idebus=66


I compiled the source for 2.6 test after applying the
second patch and then 

make mrproper
make xconfig 
make bzImage 
make modules 
make modules_install 
make install

copied the .config to the appropriate file in /boot

The message upon bootup is

mounting root filesystem
mount error 19 mounting ext3
pivotroot: pivot_root (/sysroot, /sysroot/initrd)
failed:2
umount /initrd/proc failed : 2

Freeing unused kernel memory : 228K freed

Kernel panic : No init found 
Try passing init= option to kernel

I did include ext3 fs support because it was already
part of old config file from 2.4 which was used as a
base for the new config file. 

I don't think this should make a difference but ....
Under 2.4 I had made the change that I had made
separate reiserfs partitions for /usr /var /tmp after
the initial install and moved all the relevant files
there. / is still ext3. the 2.6 source is under
/usr/src. 

The strange thing is I pass exactly the same options
to the 2.4 kernel as well as kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 (
debian on reiserfs ) and there isn't any problem.

Should I be trying some debugging? I am not very sure
how to go about that.

Thanks in advance.

Panda


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Re: kernel panic at boot

[navneet panda]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion but I already tried that
with

root=/dev/hda6 ( same as for working 2.4.20-18 )

It didn't work

Thanks anyway
Panda

--- William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, navneet panda wrote:
> 
> > root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi idebus=66
> 
> Try gettin rid of worthless LABEL= and use a device
> identifier (i.e.  
> root=/dev/hda3 or whatever).  I have found that
> LABEL= is uniformly more
> trouble than it is worth.
> 


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