Kernel Oops on boot

Erik · Guest

Hi all. I'm trying to install Gentoo on a Shuttle AK35GT board. Its a duron 1100Mhz with a via KT333 chipset (VT8367 n.b. VT8233A s.b.)

Sometimes install will die trying to mout the root FS,
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00, block 64, size 1024)
read_super_block: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00, block 8, size 1024)
XFS: bad magic number
XFS: SB validate failed
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

but more often I receive the following:
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 conteroller on pci00:11.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xdc00-0xdc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xdc08-0xdc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: IBM-DJNA-37150, ATA DISK drive
hdc: HL-DT-ST GCD-8320B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000001 printing eip:
81106eb0
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<81106eb0>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010292
eax: 00000001 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000078 edx: 00000001
esi: 00059800 edi: 80105000 ebp:0004e000 esp: 8030bfc4

ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=8030b000)
Stack: 80105019 8030c706 00020000 80105000 80311d8a 802bca87 000001a0 00000000 00002000 00000000 00000000 8030c6b0 00020000 80343040 80100191
Call Trace: [<80105019>] [<80105000>]

Code: 00 00 00 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

If anyone can shed any sort of light on this, I would really appreciate it

Erik Severinghaus
ezs@email.unc.edu

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Have you tried using another FS for root instead of reiser? Try ext3 or something just to see if the errors stop.

Unless of course someone can decipher that stuff.
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delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 6:20 am Post subject:

Bah, he's not running Reiser -- it says it's not a ReiserFS partition. (If he was, though, it would have worked.)

Make sure your root filesystem is compiled into your kernel ([*] in menuconfig) rather than as a module ([M] in menuconfig) and you should be good.

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Woops, its late.
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Erik · Guest

get sirius · Guru Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 316 Location: Madison, WI

I rather doubt it's a hardware problem since I have a similar setup.

And I may be wrong, but I think that even with a stage 3 install you must still compile your kernel.

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 11:39 pm Post subject:

To boot the installer kernel you would need to use the installer ramdisk, which you're not doing... so, I have a question for you.

Why?

Compile your own kernel, otherwise it's really messy. The installer is designed to install Gentoo and/or "rescue" a Linux system, not to be a "real" kernel.