Re: amd64 booting panic (really, really early)

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>]

Sounds very like what I was hitting. If it's the same, it should
work with 2.6.12-rc2, but is broken with -rc3 and later. 

M.

--On Thursday, June 02, 2005 09:18:40 -0700 Jeff Wiegley <jeffw@cyte.com> wrote:

> I've been trying to get the 2.6.12 release candidates booting
> on my new amd64 machine without luck.
> 
> The motherboard/machine is a new shuttle ST20G5 and the real
> frustrating part is that it does not have a built in serial
> port. So I can't directly capture the panic. (I tried putting
> in a PCI serial card and couldn't get to work. I think it
> didn't work because the panic is so incredibly early that the
> serial driver hasn't a chance to probe.)
> 
> But I have manually copied as much of the panic as remained
> on the 24 lines of my screen. (Sorry for any transcription
> errors):
> 
> The panic happens almost instaneously. (As in, I don't visibly
> see any other output other than the panic. So, to at least
> my slow eyes it looks like it happens immediately after the
> "Booting kernel" line.)
> 
> I have no idea who would be responsible for this and the
> oops-tracing.txt said to send here in such a case. I hope
> somebody can tell me what's wrong or what obvious thing I
> screwed up...
> 
> I can get 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 working but 2.6.10 and later
> produce this error. I do have a version of 2.6.12-rc2
> booting and working (typing on it now) but when I use the
> same config file for 2.6.12-rc4 it goes back to the panic.
> 
> I'm willing to try more config options but I need some
> input as to what I should be doing since I've run out of
> ideas.
> 
> Please help if you can.
> 
> RSP: 0018: ffffffff8039a658  EFLAGS: 00010046
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
> RBP: 00000000ffffffff R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000010001
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff803dbee8
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffff803dbfb0
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff803d3c00(0000) knlGS: 0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
> CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000000000000 CR4: 00000000000006a0
> Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff803da000, task ffffffff802f1200)
> Stack: 0000000000000000 ffffffff802f1d20 0000000000000000 ffffffff803dbee8
>         0000000000000000 ffffffff80152f3c 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>         ffffffff803d3d00 ffffffff802f1d20
> Call Trace: <IRQ><fffffff80152f3c>{handle_IRQ_event+44} <ffffffff8015305d>{__do_IRQ+237}
>        <ffffffff801113c2>{do_IRQ+66} ,ffffffff8010ed7d>{ret_from_intr+0}
>        <EOI> <fffffff80131b67>{call_console_drivers+231}
>        <ffffffff803dc7a7>{start_kernel+247} <fffffff803dc23f>{x86_64_start_kernel+319}
> 
> Code: 48 f7 f6 48 01 05 14 04 29 00 e9 cb 00 00 00 48 89 ca 48 8b
> RIP <fffffff80112672>{timer_intrrupt+242} RSP <ffffffff8033a658>
>   <0> Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Wiegley, PhD
> Cyte.Com, LLC
> (ignore:cea2d3a38843531c7def1deff59114de)
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