Re: early exception error

[david]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> [david@xxxxxxx - Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:31:28PM -0800]
> > 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
>
> thanks David, will try to reproduce it

I disabled the framebuffer and still got the error

the system is a dual opteron 240 with an adaptec 3210S i2o raid card and 
radon video card

lspci returns

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03)
00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02)
00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05)
00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12)
00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 12)
00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:01.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 8111 (rev 21)
01:03.0 PCI bridge: Adaptec (formerly DPT) PCI Bridge (rev 01)
01:03.1 I2O: Adaptec (formerly DPT) SmartRAID V Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 7183
03:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 71a3
04:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
04:09.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)
05:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
05:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b)
05:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 10)

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