Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753991AbYL3V3g (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:29:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753797AbYL3V3Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:29:24 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:60148 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753768AbYL3V3X (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:29:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:31:28 -0800 (PST) From: david@lang.hm X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Cyrill Gorcunov cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: early exception error In-Reply-To: <20081230212645.GA11696@localhost> Message-ID: References: <20081230212645.GA11696@localhost> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1766 Lines: 56 On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > [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. very trivial grep -v "^#" /etc/lilo.conf boot = /dev/sda message = /boot/boot_message.txt prompt compact timeout = 1200 change-rules reset vga = ask image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-64-2 root = /dev/sda2 label = 2.6.28-64 I trimmed the additional boot images from this. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/