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Andrew Finley wrote: |
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> Hi Steve (didn't know if this should go to the list or not), |
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> I have had a few crashes with the fallowing kernel error (this is the |
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> binary kernel you sent me): |
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> [<ffffffffffffff8045d758>]_set_up_early_setup_test+0xfffffeefef0000.... |
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> Code: a400000 .... |
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> kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! |
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I have not seen this even once with my kernel. Perhaps you have a |
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really old prom version that is doing something funky, but I just don't |
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know. You didn't try to do something funky with objcopy to change the |
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address or something did you? |
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> I noticed some funny things during the boot sequence: |
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> 1) |
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> *Setting system clock to hardware clock [UTC]... |
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> FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.10-rc1/modules.dep: No such file |
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> or directory |
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> *Failed to set system clock to hardware clock |
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This is a known problem. The O2 rtc has been broken since 2.6.9 |
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somehow. I've talked to somebody that said they haven't seen this |
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problem at all. I'm wondering if it is a result of a) the gentoo |
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toolchain or b) a patch I'm using. |
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Also, my kernel wasn't compiled with module support at all...in fact, I |
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think mine is 2.6.10-rc2. I know why you are getting the error (kernel |
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looking to autoload rtc module probably), but I don't know why it is |
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looking for the module at all. |
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> 2) |
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> "ERROR: Problem starting needed services. "bootmisc" was not started" |
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Not sure what the deal is here without more information, but it isn't |
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fatal. You probably have some service set up to start which isn't |
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installed or is broken. Check your boot logs. |
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> I tried several other precompiled kernels (for the o2), but none have |
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> DEVFS support, which I understand gentoo requires. |
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Gentoo most certainly doesn't require devfs. Our stages ship with a |
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static /dev directory. You can boot with "gentoo=nodevfs" to avoid an |
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annoying error about devfs on boot. However, what is even better is |
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udev. Just "emerge udev" and boot a 2.6 kernel...and Gentoo's init |
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scripts take care of the rest. |
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> Do you know what the problem might be? If so how might I fix it, short |
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> of compiling my own kernel. |
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You really should learn to build your own kernel anyway. I would |
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recommend the latest mips-sources-2.6.9 ebuild instead of being thrown |
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into the fire right away with checking cvs out and tracking down the |
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right patches. You can't just use the standard kernel.org tarball for |
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mips machines really. You should also stop by our irc channel |
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(#gentoo-mips, irc.freenode.net) sometime if you haven't already. |
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> Thanks again for your help. |
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> Regards- |
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> Andy |
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