Re: Machine check in install kernel
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:21:17AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> I get a "Machine check in kernel mode" early in the boot when using the
> kernel that comes with the woody r0 installer for powermac. I get the same
> behaviour whether I boot the uncompressed kernel with bootx, or use the HFS
> boot floppy.
>
> This is on a Mac 8500 which is upgraded with a PowerLogix 350 MHz G4 CPU
> card. I think it has 160 MB of ram. I've previously run various 2.2 and
> 2.4 kernels with success, although I had occasional freezes with 2.2.18.
G4's will be much happier with the new-powermac (2.4.x) kernel.
> I was able to begin the install with a 2.2.19 kernel I had previously been
> installed, but unfortunately I can't complete the installation because the
> version numbers don't match in the modules (apparently a 2.2.20 kernel is
> provided by r0). I need at least the ppp module to complete my
> installation. When I get to the point of configuring the drivers, it fails,
> and later when I restart and try to connect to the net, it fails again
> because it can't load a module.
If you have a previous installation, why not apt-get dist-upgrade instead?
> Is there a different 2.2.20 kernel I can try, or a pair of driver disks
> built for 2.2.19? This seems to have brought me to a halt. I don't have
> another Linux mac to build a PowerPC kernel on. I could try doing a
> cross-compile on a pentium system, but I've never done that and it sounds
> complicated.
>
> Here's the message I get from the crash:
>
> fd0: SWIM3 floppy controller
> md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Machine check in kernel mode. (regs at c05bf9d0)
> NIP: C0145E8C XER: 20000100 LR: C0147B2C REGS: c05bf9d0 TRAP: 0200
> MSR: 00009030 [EE, IR, DR, ME]
> TASK = c05be000[1] 'swapper' mm-pgd c01f2000 Last syscall: 120
> GPR00: 00000080 C05BFA80 C05BE000 C02F7000 00000070 00000007 00000002
> C03DFC38
> GPR08: C0400000 CC803000 00356000 F2C00000 22462028 002A10A8 00000000
> 00000000
> GPR16: 00000000 00000020 C02080F4 C05BFE4C C05BFA98 00000000 00000000
> C05BFAA8
> GPR24: 0000001F 0000003E C05BA1E0 00000009 00000000 C0220000 C02080F4
> C03F7---
> Call backtrace
> C000FBFC C0147B2C C022ADB4 C022AAE0 C0226488 C021CA30 C00049C4
> C0009C6C C0009C6C (this last is repeated something like 27 times - infinite
> recursion... it continues:)
> Kernel panic: machine check
> Rebooting in 180 seconds
>
> after a while it reboots. If I leave bootx set to boot off this same
> kernel, it will boot and crash repeatedly with the same register dump.
>
> I greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me. My machine addled its
> little brain when I had a freeze right in the middle of upgrading a couple
> hundred packages this morning, and I eventually decided to reformat
> everything but /home and install woody from scratch.
Oh.
> This is the first time I have attempted to use the woody installer on
> powerpc. My previous installation was potato followed by an upgrade to
> woody. I have run the woody installer on x86 though.
I'd try the new-powermac version (with BootX; it won't fit on a floppy).
On my machine, which had the video box checked for 2.2, I had to un-check
it for the 2.4 kernel.
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