Re: 2.6 series kernels on HP Netserver LH4 - kernel panic on boot

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 05:28, Len Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 18:51, Andrew Feldhacker wrote:
> > 2.6 series kernels on HP Netserver LH4 - kernel panic on boot
> >
> >
> > In attempting to migrate to the 2.6 series Linux kernel on my HP
> > Netserver LH4, I've run into a kernel panic on boot.  This happens
> > nearly immediately upon booting to the kernel, and so quickly that I
> > can't make out anything other than the truncated (transcribed) dump
> > appended below.
> >
> > 2.4.x kernels work without a hitch on this system (I was trying to
> > move
> > from 2.4.26 to 2.6.6 or 2.6.7 -- both of which produce the same
> > problem.).  I've also searched around a bit online, and found a couple
> > other mentions of what seem to be the same problem, however, there
> > were
> > no replies to go along with them.
> >
> > The dump below is from a vanilla 2.6.7 kernel:
> >
> > ----- top of screen -----
> >         00000000 c02db078 c01bb853 f7feddb0 c02db078 00000000 00000001
> > f7ea3400
> >         00000000 00000000 00000000 c01bbaf8 f7feb158 f7ea3400 00000001
> > 00000207
> > Call Trace:
> >    [<c02056e2>] class_device_add+0x112/0x130
> >    [<c0205343>] class_device_create_file+0x23/0x30
> >    [<c01bb853>] pci_alloc_child_bus+0x93/0xe0
> >    [<c01bbaf8>] pci_scan_bridge+0x208/0x250
> >    [<c01bc1da>] pci_scan_child_bus+0xaa/0xb0
> >    [<c01bc354>] pci_scan_bus_parented+0x144/0x170
> >    [<c0221f3e>] pcibios_scan_root+0x5e/0x70
> >    [<c01d9b35>] acpi_pci_root_add+0x16d/0x1cd
> >    [<c01db6aa>] acpi_bus_driver_init+0x2c/0x8a
> >    [<c01dba24>] acpi_bus_find_driver+0x83/0xdd
> >    [<c01dbed6>] acpi_bus_add+0x128/0x155
> >    [<c01dc00e>] acpi_bus_scan+0x10b/0x159
> >    [<c0359b5f>] acpi_scan_init+0x4e/0x6f
> >    [<c03449ab>] do_initcalls+0x2b/0xc0
> >    [<c0132bb5>] init_workqueues+0x15/0x2c
> >    [<c0100564>] init+0x104/0x270
> >    [<c0100460>] init+0x0/0x270
> >    [<c01042c5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10
> >
> > Code: 0b 47 0c 8d 48 6c f0 ff 48 6c 0f 88 9f 01 00 00 8b 45 00 89
> >    <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> >
> >
> > Any help on this would be much appreciated, and I would be more than
> > happy to provide any additional information which may be needed.
>
> any chance of getting a serial console "debug" capture?

If setting up serial console is problematic, simply set vga=
boot parameter to largest working resolution, to get the most
of the panic.

> would be interesting to try "acpi=off" and "pci=noacpi",
> to see if ACPI is involved, but the trace above suggests
> that the problem may lie in the common PCI code.
-- 
vda
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