Re: early exception error

[david]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> [david@xxxxxxx - Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:21:10PM -0800]
> > I'm trying to upgrade a older dual opteron box to a current 64 bit
> > system, but I'm getting early exception errors from several different
> > kernels
> >
> > I tried the ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 disks, and then I decided to try hunting
> > it down myself, so I took my 2.6.25 32 bit config copied it to a 64 bit
> > system and did a make oldconfig with 2.6.28 and am getting the same type
> > of error (the address changes from kernel to kernel and config to config
> > on the same kernel)
> >
> > doing a grep through System.map for the address that appears in the error
> > returns nothing
> >
> > attached are snapshots of the screen when the error happens and two
> > different configs with the same error (I tried disabling high-res timers,
> > tickless operation, and PAT, but got the same error), the 28 image is the
> > -2 config.
> >
> > where do I go from here to track this down?
> >
> > David Lang
> ...
>
> Hi David,
>
> not sure if it's the same but I've got similar errors for
> early_params being not capable to handle null passed args.
> What is the cmdline? It seems to be framebuffer related.
> But otoh I could be just wrong.

very trivial

grep -v "^#" /etc/lilo.conf
boot = /dev/sda
message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
compact
timeout = 1200
change-rules
  reset
vga = ask
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-64-2
  root = /dev/sda2
  label = 2.6.28-64

I trimmed the additional boot images from this.

David Lang
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