Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753938AbYL3Vqf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:46:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752579AbYL3Vq0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:46:26 -0500 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:33264 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752559AbYL3VqZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:46:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:48:30 -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: <20081230214143.GB11696@localhost> Message-ID: References: <20081230212645.GA11696@localhost> <20081230214143.GB11696@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: 4381 Lines: 98 On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > [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 I disabled the framebuffer and still got the error the system is a dual opteron 240 with an adaptec 3210S i2o raid card and radon video card lspci returns 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03) 00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02) 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) 00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12) 00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:01.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 8111 (rev 21) 01:03.0 PCI bridge: Adaptec (formerly DPT) PCI Bridge (rev 01) 01:03.1 I2O: Adaptec (formerly DPT) SmartRAID V Controller (rev 01) 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7183 03:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 71a3 04:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 04:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) 05:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b) 05:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b) 05:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10) -- 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/