Re: BUG?

Wilfried Weissmann
2002-05-21T10:14:08Z

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.
[snip]

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