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From: Whitley CTR Cecil H <WhitleyCH.ctr@××××××××××××××××.mil>
To: "'gentoo-releng@l.g.o'" <gentoo-releng@l.g.o>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 livecd issue
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 12:30:47
Message-Id: 6D3A09C6CAB0D311BA5000902760D022040F21A7@chpt0000se01.cherrypoint.usmc.mil
1 Hi John,
2 noapic on the command line resolved it. Guess reading the docs several
3 times really does help. I caught that one on the third time through the
4 install.txt.
5 Cecil
6
7
8 -----Original Message-----
9 From: John Davis [mailto:zhen@g.o]
10 Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 2:46 PM
11 To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
12 Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] 2004.2 livecd issue
13
14
15 On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:55, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote:
16 > Hi,
17 >
18 > I was put in contact with John Davis about a week ago concerning an
19 > issue i'm having with the 2004.2 livecd. After some research, it
20 > appears to be a re-emergence of a previously reported problem. See
21 > bug id 42345. Initially I thought it was accessibility related (I use
22 > speakup), but the problem occurs whether or not speakup is on.
23 >
24 > Details:
25 >
26 > I have a p4 3.4 (northwood) Asus p4c800-e deluxe mobo with 1gb RAM
27 > (matched pc-3200 in a dual channel memory configuration). evga
28 > fx5900-vivo video card, Seagate s-ata (internal), and an external USB
29 > drive bay with a Maxtor 40gb hd. Sony dvd and sony cd-rw drives (hdc
30 > and hdd respectively). Upon boot with the smp kernel
31 > (2.6.7-gentoo-r11) I have an unconfigured eth0 (onboard Intel e1000
32 > csa 82547). When I run net-setup I get a kernel panic. The
33 > "helpfull" error msg is "n interrupt not synching". I lose keyboard
34 > control, etc and only the reset button works.
35 >
36 > The 2.4.26-gentoo-r6? kernel works fine and properly configures the
37 > network adapter. I have loaded the system with 2.4.26-gentoo-r9
38 > compiled for SMP support and other than issues relating to booting
39 > from a USB external hd, the system seems to be stable. I am however
40 > having to insmod usb-storage and rerun devfsd /dev -np in order for
41 > the hd to be recognized and root of /dev/sda1 to be loaded. At some
42 > point i'll mod the linuxrc to do this automagically. 2.6.8-gentoo-r3
43 > is not yet functional, but this may relate to devfs/udev (i.e. user
44 > failure) and I simply haven't had time to gather all relevant
45 > information and throughly test.
46 >
47 > At this point I haven't gotten the system fully configured, but I
48 > think i'm far enough along to provide logs from the 2.6.7 boot,
49 > although logging the panic is beyond my technical skills (I make a
50 > decent monkey though, so if you tell me what to type where i'll give
51 > it a try). In particular, if I can redirect the log to my hd along
52 > with any crash dump i'm more than willing to.
53 >
54 > Regards,
55 >
56 > Cecil Whitley
57
58 Cecil -
59 This seems to be more of a kernel bug than anything else and I am not
60 sure if we can be of assistance. File a bug with the kernel developers
61 and see if they have anything.
62
63 Regards,
64 --
65 John Davis
66 Gentoo Linux Developer
67 <http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>
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