Re: Exception while loading kernel

["J. Scott Kasten" <jscottkasten@yahoo.com>]

Hi Giuseppe,

I think I'm getting a clue what is happening to your kernel.  Would you 
please do an "ls -l" in your /boot and tell me exactly HOW BIG your 
System.map and kernel files are?  :)

I took your config as is from the link below and pulled the linux-mips 
source, built it and then made a fascinating discovery when I tried to set 
it up for a boot.

The System.map was OVER 50 MEGS, and the kernel weighed in at a HEFTY 87 
MEGS.

In the various parts of the kernel config, you will see some options for 
the kernel sysmbol table, driver symbols, etc...  Try turning some of 
those off.  In particular, I noticed in your config:

CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS=y

I suspect you are stressing things that haven't been looked at lately.

Anyway, rebuild with some things turned off, and let us know if your 
little blue box still explodes.

Regards,

-S-

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:

> Il giorno gio, 30/08/2007 alle 09.37 -0400, J. Scott Kasten ha scritto:
>> Giuseppe,
>>
>> Let's review for just a second.  If I understand, you are booting the
>> debian pre-built 2.6.18-4 just fine.  However, any kernel you build
>> yourself seems to be borked.  Correct?
>
> No, I may rebuild 2.6.18 just fine. I even added a few device drivers
> without problems. Lately I tried a more recent kernel, i.e. 2.6.22.2
> 2.6.22.4 and 2.6.23-rc3, bot no one of them seems to boot on an SGI O2.
>
>> You don't need to spam the list with it, but please gzip one or more of
>> your .config files, label them as to kernel version, and email me direct
>> off list.  I would like to try and recreate your problem and see what can
>> be learned here.
>
> you may get the config (for 2.6.22.2 download from linux-mips.org) from
> http://eppesuigoccas.homedns.org/~giuseppe/debian/config-2.6.22.2.bz2
>
> Thanks,
> Giuseppe
>
>
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