Hello,

I have Red Hat 8.0 installed on my mini-ITX cube EPIA M1000 motherbaord,
and I would like to upgrade it to Red Hat 9 Professional.
The problem is that when I boot from the floppy, it seems to start loading
the kernel and then it locks up.

When I try booting from the CD, I use "linux text" at the boot prompt...
which ends up giving me a kernel panic!
X--------------------------
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
<1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c0000000
printing eip:
c01143e7
*pde = 00001063
*pte = 00000025
Oops: 0003
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c01143e7>]     Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010206

EIP is at (2.4.20-2.BOOT)
eax: 00000001   ebx: 00001000   ecx: 00000001   edx: c0000000
esi: 00000163   edi: c0105000   ebp: 0004e000   esp: c0289fd8
ds: 0068   es: 0068  ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid 0, stackpage=c0289000)
Stack: c028ff7a c0000000 00000160 000004bd c02902b5 00000000 00059800
c028a601
c02a6f00 c010018c
Call Trace:

Code 88 0a 31 c0 c3 56 53 bb 00 a0 28 c0 81 fb 00 40 2a c0 73 4f
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idlke task!
In idle task - not syncing
X--------------------------

Through Google searching, I found this same problem in Bugzilla... but I
do not know where to get the vmlinuz replacement that will work
(non-patch900-BOOT kernel).  Their link to the bootdisk.img for the EPIA is
out of date!!!  Please help...

Many thanks in advance for any help you can give!

HERE IS WHAT BUGZILLA SAID:

------- Additional Comment #7 From Michael K. Johnson on 2003-03-12
12:36 -------

We have tracked this one down, thanks for the bug reports!
Just remove patch 900 (linux-2.4.20-oopsmeharder.patch) which was
intended to (and did...) catch more error cases, but also broke
this test.  The test is simply not done on more modern CPU designs,
so the newest C3s such as those included with the VIA EPIA M10000
are not affected.


------- Additional Comment #8 From Zenon Panoussis on 2003-03-12
22:19 -------

Confirmed. Replacing the distribution vmlinuz with a non-patch900-BOOT
kernel
solves the problem. Thanks!

I made a bootdisk.img with the corrected kernel (rather useless on my
floppyless
machine, had to put it on a boot CD). Next question: is it worthwhile for me
to
make and publish a complete phoebe-epia-disc1.iso , or are you guys going to
fix
this in the current phoebe-3 distribution?

The EPIA bootdisk.img will be at http://www.provocation.net/bootdisk.img in
an
hour or so.

Only now I notice that the original bug report was about the 800. Mine is an
M9000 having the same problem.

Z








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