I'm pretty sure this is due to gcc2.95 - I had the same troubles with my AS1200 which I solved by using gcc3.0 Mike On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 07:07:27PM -0700, Soren Harward wrote: > I have an Alphaserver 2100 (aka "Sable") revision 4/200. I installed > Debian 3.0r1 on it a few days ago and updated everything to "testing". > It's a dual-processor machine, so yesterday I built a new 2.4.20 kernel > with SMP turned on. However, immediately on boot, the kernel panics > with the following (I copied it on paper from the screen -- sorry if I > got something wrong): > > Unable to handle paging request at virtual address 0000000000000000 > [lots of 64-bit hex dumps] > Trace: fffffc000081001c > Code: b57e0018 20b13ff0 b75e0000 47f0040b b55e0010 209105d0 <a6e20000> > 40810404 > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! > > Since it happenned so early in the boot, I thought it might have been a > problem with being compiled for the wrong processor type (I've seen > similar errors trying to boot an i686 kernel on an i586 machine). So I > went back to the kernel config and made sure that CONFIG_ALPHA_SABLE was > set, but that CONFIG_ALPHA_EV5 was *not* set and that CONFIG_ALPHA_EV4 > was. See, my AS2100 uses the EV4 processor and most AS2100's use the EV5 > processor. So I recompiled, and still got a kernel panic. But during this > next compile, I noticed that the Makefile was still using the -Wa,-mev6 > switch, which passes "-mev6" (optimize for EV6) to the assembler. So I > commented that out of the Makefile, and re-re-compiled. Still got a > kernel panic. I'm in the middle of re-re-re-compiling using > CONFIG_ALPHA_GENERIC; I'll see if that works. > > Anyone have any idea what's going on? Is it indeed that my kernel is > getting compiled for the wrong processor, or am I completely on the > wrong track? What else should I try? Different kernel version? > Different compiler? Different kernel options? > > Again, this is kernel 2.4.20, compiling with gcc 2.95.4, running on > Debian 3.0r1/testing. > > -- > Soren Harward > soren@byu.edu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-alpha-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org -- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773.
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