On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:40:24AM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote: >On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 12:51:18AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Now I'm looking at the console with this kernel running, I'm seeing >> a constant spew of messages like >> >> kernel unaligned access to 0xe00000007a295fbc, ip=0xe000000004983aa0 >> <sc1236(0,20000000000699b8,20000000000493a0,c000000000000309)> >> <sc1236(0,2000000000540200,0,20000000005776d0)> >> <sc1236(0,0,3,0)> >> <sc1254(0,80000fffffffbd00,0,200000000033dd70)> >> <sc1236(0,2000000000308200,0,200000000033f6d0)> >> <sc1254(0,80000fffffffbd00,0,200000000033dd70)> >> <sc1236(0,2000000000308200,0,200000000033f6d0)> >> <sc1254(0,80000fffffffbd00,0,200000000033dd70)> >> <sc1236(0,2000000000308200,0,200000000033f6d0)> >> <sc1254(0,80000fffffffbd00,0,200000000033dd70)> >> <sc1236(0,2000000000308200,0,200000000033f6d0)> >> <sc1254(0,80000fffffffbd00,0,200000000033dd70)> >> <sc1236(0,2000000000308200,0,200000000033f6d0)> >> >> scrolling up the screen. Naively, I'm guessing this may suggest >> hardware problems on this machine. Any suggestions, guys? > >No, that's from running a 2.4 kernel with modern libc's ... the kernel >is telling you something is trying to make unimplemented system calls. >Nothing will break, but at this stage you're best off running a 2.6 >series kernel anyway. Cool, thanks. At least the hardware (probably) doesn't have problems then. I just need to work out why the machine won't boot any current sarge kernel, either 2.4.27 or 2.6.8. That's the worrying thing atm... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Is there anybody out there?
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