Re: Can't boot amd64 kernel
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:45:12AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>
> On Jan 5, 2004, at 12:24, Scott Ransom wrote:
>
> >I have a virtually identical system (except with 6GB RAM) and see the
> >same
> >problem. THe various kernel options haven't helped.
>
> I found the problem with my system: Out of the 8 DIMMs, 3 were
> defective. Ouch.
>
> The three happened to get mapped above 4GB so the 32-bit Debian kernel
> doesn't hit them.
Hmmm. I don't think that this applies to me. I ran an
AMD64-modified version of memtest for about 3 days straight and
got no errors.
> >I have been able to sucessfully boot earlier 32 bit kernels (prior to
> >about 2.4.20 I believe; for instance Knoppix works), but later ones and
> >the 2.6 series stop at the same place you see.
>
> I haven't booted a 2.6 32-bit kernel. Personally, I plan to stay away
> from 2.6 for a while.
>
> >64 bit kernels (I'm now running 2.6.0) seem to boot fine, though.
>
> 64-bit isn't booting yet, it seems the aic79xx driver isn't happy in
> 2.4.23 on amd64 (panic, null pointer). 2.6.0 booted, but died early in
> rc.X (panic, illegal operation, I think)
>
> 2.4.23 (32-bit) from kernel.org doesn't work with the gigabit chipset
> on the board; it doesn't get a link no matter what.
>
> 2.4.23-1-k7-smp from Debian works, and now since I'm down three DIMMs
> (4, really, since they need to be paired) I only have 4GB of RAM
> anyway...
>
> I plan to work on getting a 64-bit kernel to work. Just need to find a
> fixed aic79xx driver, I think. And maybe gige.
If you are interested in trying my current 64bit kernel
(2.6.1-rc1 + x86-64 group fixes), which is monolithic and has
working gigabit and aic79xx, let me know and I can post mine
somewhere.
> [ BTW: To test for the bad memory, I just wrote a program that wrote
> 1gb of pseudo-random data, read it back, and compared, one 32-bit int
> at a time. When it hit bad memory, I got a MCE. ]
Just curious: Why not use memtest?
Scott
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