Re: early exception error

Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-12-30T21:26:56Z

[david@lang.hm - Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:21:10PM -0800]
> I'm trying to upgrade a older dual opteron box to a current 64 bit
> system, but I'm getting early exception errors from several different
> kernels
>
> I tried the ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 disks, and then I decided to try hunting
> it down myself, so I took my 2.6.25 32 bit config copied it to a 64 bit
> system and did a make oldconfig with 2.6.28 and am getting the same type
> of error (the address changes from kernel to kernel and config to config
> on the same kernel)
>
> doing a grep through System.map for the address that appears in the error
> returns nothing
>
> attached are snapshots of the screen when the error happens and two
> different configs with the same error (I tried disabling high-res timers,
> tickless operation, and PAT, but got the same error), the 28 image is the
> -2 config.
>
> where do I go from here to track this down?
>
> David Lang
...

Hi David,

not sure if it's the same but I've got similar errors for
early_params being not capable to handle null passed args.
What is the cmdline? It seems to be framebuffer related.
But otoh I could be just wrong.

- Cyrill -