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- From: wong060@cs.cuhk.hk (Lewis S.H. Wong)
- Subject: Re: Repost of swapper/scsi(?) boot problem 0.98.5, 0.99.2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.080345.25613@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk>
- Keywords: boot problem swapper scsi 0.98.5 0.99.2
- Sender: news@cucs5.cs.cuhk.hk
- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
- References: <philipr.726164463@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 08:03:45 GMT
- Lines: 46
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- philipr@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Philip Rhoades) writes:
-
- >This is a repost of a previous problem - there was no posted solution
- >and my mail to the person bounced. I have the same problem with both the
- >SLS 0.98.5 created boot disk and a new boot disk from 0.99.2:
-
- >Last week I've tried to upgrade to 98p6 by recompiling the new kernel and
- >making a new bootdisk (yes, I don not use Lilo) ... compiling was fine, but
- >when I tried to boot from the new disk I've got the following:
-
- > (after recognizing my SCSI disk correctly ...)
- > general protection: 0000
- > EIP: 0008:0004C461
- > EFLAGS: 00010286
- > fs: 0017
- > base: C0000000, limit 000A0000
- > PID: 0, process nr: 0
- > C7 02 00 00 00 00 A1 68 FF 04
- > task[0] (swapper) killed - unable to recover
- > kernel panic: trying to free up swapper memory space
- > in swapper task - not syncing
-
- >Then it all halts ... I've tried the 99 version, too - with the same
- >result. But I can boot it from my old 98p5 bootdisk ...
-
- >Is there a way to get 98p6 or 99 running ? My machine is a 486 with
- >8 meg RAM and a SCSI disk on an AHA1542B
-
- >Please, is there any solution ? Maybe something has changed for compiling
- >the kernel from 98p5 to 98p6 ? Any options etc. ?
-
- >Sven Kuehne Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
- >c0033010@ws.rz.tu-bs.de Rechenzentrum
-
- >- Anyone have a solution to Sven and my problems?
- You need to change the ROOT_DEV to the appropriate harddisk partition,
- for example,
-
- ROOT_DEV=/dev/sda3
-
- this means the third partition of the first scsi harddisk will be the
- root device of Linux.
-
- Lewis
-
- wong060@cs.cuhk.hk
-