Re: 2.6.11.7 kernel panic on boot on AMD64

Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-04-28T16:38:37Z

On 4/28/05, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:05:40 +0200
> Ruben Puettmann <ruben@puettmann.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:27:04PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > Looks like this code in init/main.c:
> > >
> > > if (late_time_init)
> > > late_time_init();
> > >
> > > sees a garbage value in late_time_init (garbage being
> > > %eax == 0x00307974.743d656c, which is "le=tty0\n",
> > > as in "console=tty0").
> > >
> > > How long is your kernel boot/command line?
> > > Please post it.
> >
> > It was boot over pxe here is the append line from the
> > pxelinux.cfg/default
> >
> > APPEND vga=normal rw load_ramdisk=0 root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.112.1:/store/rescue/sarge-amd64,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timo=12,retrans=3,mountvers=3,nfsvers=3
>
> Hm, no "console=tty...." at all. That didn't help (me) much.

Could that boot loader pxe append console=tty implicitly?

>From the vmlinux Ruben gave me,
ffffffff807980d8 A __bss_start
ffffffff807980d8 A _edata
ffffffff80798100 B boot_cpu_stack
ffffffff8079c100 B boot_exception_stacks
ffffffff807a1100 B system_state
ffffffff807a1120 B saved_command_line
ffffffff807a1220 B late_time_init
ffffffff807a1228 b execute_command
ffffffff807a1230 b panic_later
ffffffff807a1238 b panic_param
...

It seems possible to luckily skip the garbage. Comment out the two
lines and see if it works.

/* if (late_time_init)
late_time_init(); */

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Coywolf Qi Hunt