Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower

[Ron Murray <rjmx@rjmx.net>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Now when I try and boot into the Linux installer, I always get a crash:
> >
> > Machine check in kernel mode.  (regs at c01f5ea0)
> > Caused by (from srr1): Unknown values in srr1
> > NIP: C015E3CC XER: 00000000 LR: C0163014 REGS: c01f5ea0 TRAP: 0200
> > MSR: 00001030 [IR, DR, ME]
> > TASK = c01f41e0[0] 'swapper' mm->pgd c01f2000 Last syscall: 112
> > GPR00: 000000FF C01F5F50 C01F41E0 C053B000 00008000 C01F5FF0 FFFFFF9D 
> > F3000020
> > GPR08: C01F3414 FE010014 00010000 FE000000 00000000 0040A0A8 00000000 
> > 00000000
> > GPR16: 00000000 00000000 20000002 00000000 00001032 001F5FE0 00000000 
> > C0004154
> > GPR24: C0006518 00000000 40000000 0040A000 0000002E C01F5FF0 00009032 
> > C053B000
> > Call backtrace:
> > 00000000 C0163014 C00064A0 C000CEFC C0006558 C0004154 C0021030
> > C0006604 C0006630 C0003EC4 C0220000 C021C8CC C0003CF0
> > Kernel panic: machine check
> > In swapper task - not syncing
> > Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>
>
> That's interesting ! It looks like a HW error (machine check is usually
> caused by a device reporting a HW failure, or the kernel trying to
> do IO to non-existing devices).
>
> Do you have the System.map that corresponds to this kernel ? It's
> needed to decode the numbers above.

   It's the standard woody powerpc kernel, from the current CD I think 
(downloaded it a couple of days ago). There's a copy of the sysmap on 
the CD; I'll email it direct to you (rather than clutter up the list 
with attachments) just in case you can't find it.

Thanks,

 .....Ron



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