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- From: ghod@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: .99.2 to .99.3 : getting it to boot
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.191653.2983@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:16:52 -0500
- References: <1jn6d2$h5l@introl.introl.com> <1jnd20INNluc@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon Computer Club
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- In article <1jnd20INNluc@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
- > pete@introl.com (Pete Ikusz) writes:
- >
- >>I have .99.2 working nicely, so I applied the kernel patch to bring me
- >>up to .99.3. From this I built a kernel, (which of course doesn't work(knowing me)).
- >
- >>I have: 486-33, 8 meg ram, 0 swap, IDE disk.
- >>The errors are :
- >>---------------------------------------------------------------------
- >>Serial driver version 3.8 withirq.c:bad bottom half of entry.
- >> no serial options enabled.
- >>ttys0 at 0x03f8 ( irq = 4 ) is a 16450
- >>ttys1irq.c: bad bottom half entry.
- >> bad bottom half entry.
- >> is a 16450
- >>8 virtual consoles
- >>general protection: 0000
- >>EIP: 0008:0000CFB8
- >>EFLAGS: 00010286
- >>fs: 0017
- >>base: C0000000, limit: 000A0000
- >>pid: 0, process nr: 0
- >>ff d0 83 C4 04 C3 90 90 90 90
- >>task[0] (swapper) killed: unable to recover
- >>kernel panic: trying to free swapper memory space
- >>In swapper task - not syncing
- >>---------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
- >>Do I need a newer version of gcc? I am running 2.2.2d.
- >
- >>Can anyone offer any advice?
- >
- >>Thanks.
- >>-Pete
- >
- > You might try upgrading, since a lot of the include files changed from
- > 2.2.2d to 2.3.3. While the kernel doesn't use any standard library calls,
- > the difference in the include files may be making it have problems booting.
- >
- > You can get 2.3.3 from tsx-11.mit.edu in the pub/linux/GCC directory.
- >
- > James
-
- For the record, I'm still using gcc 2.2.2d and my 0.99.3 kernel compiled and
- works just fine. This may run your phone bill up, but I suggest downloading
- the complete 0.99.3 source and trying that rather than applying the patches
- to 0.99.2. Now, I don't mean to imply that using the diffs is what's causing
- the trouble, but when weird stuff like that starts happening to me, my first
- instinct is to start over with a nice fresh copy of everything. And the easiest
- way to do that is to get the complete source. At the very least, this
- eliminates the possibility of the patches being applied incorrectly. Hope
- this helps.
-
- -Bill
-