Re: floppy problems under 2.1.xxx

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
16 Jul 1998 21:47:14 +0200


Tom Rini <tmrini@ntplx.net> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I've been having problems getting my floppy drive to work under 2.1.10x
> (7-vger, 8, 8ac2, 9pre2). When I use 2.0.3x, it shows up as a National
> Semiconductor PC87306, and works fine (stand RH5.1, updated and .35 built
> w/ egcs-2.92.00), however any 2.1.10x I try (built w/ egcs-2.92.00,
> .91.47, or 1.0.2) will crash on boot with the following:
>
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.2M, <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000668
> current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 0101000
> *pde = 00000000
> Opps: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c01dbf17>]
> EFLAGS: 00210097
> (more if needed)
>
> Anyone have any pointers?

Build ksymoops in /usr/src/linux/scripts, and then run the oops with the
correct System.map through ksymoops. Otherwise the oops cannot be diagnosed.

-Andi

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