Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754138AbYL3Vl6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:41:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753593AbYL3Vlq (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:41:46 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:1876 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753955AbYL3Vlp (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:41:45 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=QwvNvSGWXHRytqVL9eQcrRcWoJONcuH8Hls68FegxE4a1T8rWR7DuyZv3GyND0j7rb gx0TrVEwgUFQSd9+U7HVV/cPaAG30zKiv7hBFfTVtw+N7ZCTG1WfW+GQbRideQpnMQGI UwROqAp1VlzGqAWx/9Bhp8+nJHNpfAMuYTzN4= Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:41:43 +0300 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: david@lang.hm Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: early exception error Message-ID: <20081230214143.GB11696@localhost> References: <20081230212645.GA11696@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1942 Lines: 62 [david@lang.hm - Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:31:28PM -0800] > 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 > thanks David, will try to reproduce it - Cyrill - -- 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/