Re: early exception error

[Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 05:39:29PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> >david@lang.hm writes:
> >>
> >>doing a grep through System.map for the address that appears in the
> >>error returns nothing
> >
> >This might be obvious, but you can't grep directly for these addresses
> >because System.map contains the starting addresses of functions only
> >and normally the reported address is somewhere in the middle of a
> >function. So you instead have to look for the highest number lower or equal
> >the address from the exception.
> 
> thanks, this was not obvious to me
> 
> the -2 error maps to

You should also boot with earlyprintk=vga to get more context.

-Andi