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- From: dws@cseg03.uark.edu (David W. Summers)
- Subject: Problems with LILO 0.7 and Linux 0.99
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.062524.23446@cseg03.uark.edu>
- Summary: It's broke
- Keywords: Problems LILO 0.7 Linux 0.99
- Sender: netnews@engr.uark.edu (NetNews Administrator)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: cseg03.uark.edu
- Organization: University of Arkansas
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 06:25:24 GMT
- Lines: 130
-
- Hello fellow Linuxers (Linuxians? :-), I hope this isn't too long....
-
- Well, I just saw that 0.99 made it out so I decided to try to upgrade
- from 0.98.5 to 0.98.6 and then to 0.99.
-
- Here's the setup:
- HARDWARE:
- ---------
- 486-50 AMI BIOS
- EISA Motherboard
- 8 Meg Ram
- 520 Meg Fujitsu 2426F (SCSI)
- AHA 1542B Controller
-
- Software:
- ---------
- Linux 0.98.6 and/or Linux 0.99
- LILO 0.7
-
- /usr/src/linux/.config:
- ========== BEGIN =============
- #
- # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
- #
-
- #
- # General setup
- #
- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD
- CONFIG_TCPIP = CONFIG_TCPIP
- CONFIG_MAX_16M = CONFIG_MAX_16M
-
- #
- # SCSI support
- #
- CONFIG_SCSI = CONFIG_SCSI
-
- #
- # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom)
- #
- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD
- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ST = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ST
- CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR
-
- #
- # SCSI low-level drivers
- #
- CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 = CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542
-
- #
- # Filesystems
- #
- CONFIG_MINIX_FS = CONFIG_MINIX_FS
- CONFIG_EXT_FS = CONFIG_EXT_FS
- CONFIG_MSDOS_FS = CONFIG_MSDOS_FS
- CONFIG_PROC_FS = CONFIG_PROC_FS
- CONFIG_NFS_FS = CONFIG_NFS_FS
- CONFIG_ISO9660_FS = CONFIG_ISO9660_FS
-
- #
- # Various character device drivers..
- #
- ======== END =========================
-
- Disk partitions:
- ========= BEGIN =============
- # /etc/lilo/disktab - LILO disk parameter table
- #
- # This table contains disk parameters for SCSI disks and non-
- # standard parameters of IDE disks. Parameters in disktab
- # _always_ override auto-detected disk parameters.
-
- # Dev. BIOS Secs/ Heads/ Cylin- Part.
- # num. code track cylin. ders offset
-
- 0x800 0x80 32 64 495 0 # /dev/sda
- 0x801 0x80 32 64 495 2048 # /dev/sda1 (OS/2 Boot Manager)
- 0x802 0x80 32 64 495 32 # /dev/sda2 (DOS-OS/2)
- 0x803 0x80 32 64 495 239616 # /dev/sda3 (Extended Partition)
- 0x804 0x80 32 64 495 206848 # /dev/sda4 (Linux root (EXTFS))
- 0x805 0x80 32 64 495 239648 # /dev/sda5 (Logical PARTITION)
- 0x806 0x80 32 64 495 272416 # /dev/sda6 (Logical PARTITION)
- 0x807 0x80 32 64 495 337952 # /dev/sda7 (Logical PARTITION)
- ============= END ===================
-
- Here's the saga:
- 1.) I was using LILO 0.4 with Linux 0.98.5 and everything was groovy.
-
- 2.) I tried to upgrade to LILO 0.7 but it stops at the "LIL". I (re)-read
- the documentation and it says that it is probably caused by a mis-matched
- /etc/lilo/disktab file but I haven't changed my disk partitioning!
-
- 3.) I tried to boot 0.99 Image from floppy and the kernel panics with:
-
- [previous boot stuff deleted, unless you think it is important....]
- Partition table ok.
- MINIX-fs magic match failed.
- general protection: 0000
- EIP: 0008:0000B6C4
- EFLAGS: 00010202
- fs: 0017
- base: C00000000, Limit: 000A0000
- Pid: 1, process nr: 1
- 86 13 85 d2 74 27 83 3a 02 74
-
- :-( Well, I tried looking in System.map on 0.99 and narrow it down and
- I *THINK* I've narrowed it down to the 'wake_up' routine.
-
- Could someone tell me how to narrow it down further? Do I need to spend some
- time putting 'printk' calls in 'wake_up' to try to figure out what is going on?
-
-
- GOOD NEWS: The 0.98.6 SCSI code really flies! I'm impressed!
- Also the TCP/IP code is fabulous!
-
-
- Has anyone else expirienced this problem? Am I doing something stupid or
- silly?
-
- I have read and re-read the LILO docs several times but can't figure out
- what I'm doing wrong...it starts to boot.
-
-
- Thanks!
- - David Summers
- (dws@engr.uark.edu)
- --
- "Never under-estimate the bandwidth of a station-wagon
- David Summers full of tapes, hurtling down the highway."
- dws@engr.uark.edu - Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks"
-