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Panic'ing 2.4.21-pre4 on a PPC604e (IBM 830 Carolina) - Patches?



debian-powerpc,

The box is currently running what seems to be a heavily patched 2.2.13
(MSK 1999). This kernel is _reall_ old, and resides on a boot floppy
that I attempt to keep in pristine condition.

carlos@m6:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : 604
clock           : 95MHz
revision        : 3.4
bogomips        : 199.07
zero pages      : total 0 (0Kb) current: 0 (0Kb) hits: 0/147 (0%)
machine         : PReP IBM 8xx (Carolina)
Upgrade CPU
L2              : not present
simms           : 0:16M 1:16M 2:8M 3:8M 4:16M 5:16M
carlos@m6:~$

m6:/proc# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC105 [Eagle] (rev 24)
00:0b.0 ISA bridge: IBM Fire Coral (rev 02)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 12)
00:0e.0 VGA compatible unclassified device: S3 Inc. 86c864 [Vision 864 DRAM] vers 0
m6:/proc#

Firmware has been updated to the latest IBM 8x0 1.10.

a. rsync'd linuxppc_2_4
b. Built kernel.
 - Using PowerPC unstable toolchain
c. booted zImage.prep via bootp/tftp

I can't get serial console to fly so here goes my typing:

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ide3: Wait for ready failed before probe !
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 13
...
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_Data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
...
Partition check:
 hda: unknown partition table
...
hda2: bad access: block=64, count=2
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:02, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
 <0>Rebooting in 180 secons..
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Suggested patches?

I know about the firmware vs. Linux CHS drive geometry mismatch, and
that's not the issue. I'd just like to be able to boot and test a 2.4.x
kernel :) Many thanks.

c.



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