Re: Can't boot

[Cesli <cesli@olis.north.de>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 1998 at 01:44:24PM -0600, Colby Lemon wrote:

| 	However, I ran into a kernel panic later on into the boot process.
| I'll try to summarize what it said:
| 
| 	Configuring serial ports, etc.
| 	Machine check in kernel mode
| 	Something about an mm fault
| 	Lots of crap (numbers)
| 	kernel panic
| 
| I'm not sure why this happens.  Any suggestions?  I'm using kernel
| 2.1.130, just in case that's meaningful to the problem.  Thanks...
| 
| 	Colby

Your descriptions are a bit scanty :)

2.1.127 gives the same error ?
message about serial ports is the latest in your boot process ?
Did you change /etc/rc.boot/0setserial ?
Did you add cua devices to /dev ?
 These were missing in my installation : 
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     uucp       5,  64 Dec 12 00:13 cua0   #perhaps this one shipped with installation-can't remember
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     uucp       5,  65 Nov 19 10:09 cua1
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     uucp       5,  66 Nov 22 01:04 cua2
   0 crw-rw----   1 root     uucp       5,  67 Nov 16 01:11 cua3
   0 crw-rw-r--   1 root     cesli     56,   0 Nov 17 02:13 adb
   0 crw-rw-r--   1 root     cesli     10,  10 Nov 16 01:04 adbmouse
   0 crw-rw-r--   1 root     root      10, 154 Nov 16 01:05 pmu    #it's a powerbook
	
Claus.