Re: 2.2.0pre1 OOPS on boot.

Andre M. Hedrick (hedrick@Astro.Dyer.Vanderbilt.Edu)
Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:50:28 -0600 (CST)


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Linus,

Here is the final changes/corrections that patches directly against
'test1-patch-2.2.0-pre2', this is what Jens and Gadi pointed out to me.
This does correctly split the two tests in ide_xlate_1024 in ide.c and
corrects the typos in ide-disk.c.

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Steven N. Hirsch wrote:
> >
> > Following up on my Ooops report. Rebuilding 2.2.0-pre1 w/ CONFIG_CPU=M486
> > made no difference. It panics on boot at the partition check:
> >
> > sda:<Ooops follows, not in logs>
>
> Ahh, this looks a lot more like the problem is something in the new BSD
> partition finding code than the TSC I first suspected.
>
> Could you try just reversing the BSD parition diffs to see, and perhaps
> jot down at least the basics of the oops (even just eip: then doing a
>
> gdb vmlinux
> (gdb) x/10i <saved-eip>
>
> will give some useful information).
>
> Linus
>
>
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Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
The APC UPS Specialist for Linux

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You just need a bigger hammer, or learn how to swing the one you have better.
(C) me.....

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