RE: [2.5.54] OOPS: unable to handle kernel paging request

[Bill Davidsen]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Aniruddha M Marathe wrote:

> >From: Paul Rolland [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> >Subject: Re: [2.5.54] OOPS: unable to handle kernel paging request
> >
> >
> >Got the same yesterday evening when installing 2.5.54 for the 
> >first time....
> >
> >My second PC which I used for Serial console was not at home, 
> >so if a console output is needed, people will have to wait for 
> >the weekend (which is not that far).
> >
> >Config was roughly including :
> > - Arch = P4, Unipro, APIC
> > - CPU Freq scaling
> > - ACPI (enum only)
> > - TCP (v4 + v6), Netfilter
> > - IDE, SCSI (AIC7xxx),
> > - Sound (Alsa, EMu10K1),
> > - Crypto
> >
> >This oops happens at the very early stage of the boot process. 
> >By that time, only 10 to 15 lines are displayed on the screen 
> >following the "Booting ...................." stuff.
> >
> >
> Check if the processor in your .config matches with the processor that you have.
> Eg. Problme might arise if .config file says CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y when your processor is P4.

Might, but I have the same thing, and I copied my 2.5.53 config and did
oldconfig. Got a perfect build, it just doesn't boot. The snow is falling,
I'm likely to have time to look at it this weekend.

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bill davidsen <[e-mail]>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.