From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:16:02 +0000 Subject: Re: kernel panic at boot Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > > 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 ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.125 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________