From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hxjn7-0003UK-0g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:18:41 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l5BDIMHN006544; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:18:22 GMT Received: from uni-bonn.de (mail.uni-bonn.de [131.220.15.112]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l5BDIKGJ006539 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:18:21 GMT Received: from [131.220.136.22] ([131.220.136.22] verified) by uni-bonn.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.8) with ESMTP id 48650792 for gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:18:20 +0200 Message-ID: <466D4B9C.6050103@uni-bonn.de> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:18:20 +0200 From: "Mathias W." Organization: privat User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070519) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] Problems with mips-sources-2.6.20 References: <466C0C34.60001@uni-bonn.de> <20070610104104.7096c7b1@azathoth.beerandrocks.net> <466C1769.1060807@uni-bonn.de> <466C31D5.7060500@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <466C31D5.7060500@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 3333c809-de5c-4f42-9baf-9bafcb9ceeac X-Archives-Hash: 99f559e9d73cfd4753359b2351a3373b Kumba wrote: > Mathias W. wrote: >>>> oldconfig) and it doesn't boot. I get the same message as in this >>>> thread: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-mips/msg_00503.xml >>>> >>>> NESTED EXCEPTION #1 (vid 0) at EPC: ffffffff9fc6a0a4; first exception >>>> at PC: 0 > Second, whenever you use an older config on a newer kernel, _always_ > check the config to make sure it didn't flip something off. Things > changed dramatically from .17 to .20, and relying on oldconfig alone > isn't recommended. I usually run through menuconfig and just check the > categories myself. Now I carefully looked through menuconfig and did some additional customization but didn't find anything obvious wrong. Still the new kernel does not boot. I'm willing to try a config from you guys if you have one for the octane/octane2 > That all said, nested exceptions sometimes point at ARCS bugs. You may > have an out-of-date PROM. Unfortunately, we're not sure which PROMs are > out-of-date, and which ones aren't. I have "PROM Monitor SGI Version 6.5 Rev 4.8 IP30 Sep 6,2001 - 64 Bit" -- Mathias Weigt -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list