Re: Oops on Boot with 2.3.39

From: Robert Schiele (rschiele@uni-mannheim.de)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2000 - 12:26:07 EST


"Christopher W. Fisher" <chrisf@shadow.net> wrote:
> Hi;
>
> I am getting oopsen everytime an attempt to bootstrap this machine under
> kernel 2.3.39., so I am having to use 2.2.14 for now.
>
> so a debugging session isnt really possible...
> here is the info I have gathered.
> The oopsen occurs at this address range in the code according to
> System.map
>
> at c01304ec which would point to the entries below.
>
> c01304cc T blkdev_open
> c01305b4 T blkdev_put
>
> The oops does not occur until the kernel has completed loading and was
> about ready to mount the root FS.

This is a problem with initrd support.
If you can do without it, just switch it off and everything should work. If you
really need it, I have no solution for you at the moment.

Robert

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