On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 19:32, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-07 13:14:53 -0400, Christian T. Steigies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 01:25:22PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > - Woody installer: > > > - Woody's install kernel (2.2.18 or 2.2.20 IIRC) seems to be a > > > *bit* unstable. After the installation started off > > > successfully, d(e)bootstrap and their childs may SIGSEGV'ed or > > > SIGBUS'ed... > > > > SIGSEGV sounds like a broken FPU/MMU to me, but I'm no expert in that. > > ...or like non-working code wrt. caches at context switch time.
Sorry, but that kind of trouble is unlikely. I'm pretty sure there are (or at least were) quite a few people using a 68040 and 2.2.x kernels. I have a 68060 myself which has even bigger caches and it's been a quite a while since that kind of trouble still existed in the kernel. > > > - Potato install kernel + Woody root.bin > > > - Oopses some time after I've started to install the base > > > system while accessing 0x00000023 (-> seems to reference some > > > struct element...) > > > > Shouldn't happen, the woody kernel works fine for me. > > 8^D Maybe there's some bug in the swapping code. I had something like > that on MIPSel, too. Some shift value wasn't correct, but I fear I'm not > yet deep enough into m68k/linux to investigate this... Again, very unlikely. You may or may not know that m68k was one of the first ports of Linux (back in 1.x or even 0.99 days). > > > 12+2, but not sure:) > > > > 12 Chip sounds a little much, 12 Fast sounds a little little, do you have a > > swap partition? > > Of course:) Would you offer to do a test for me? I don't want to ruin > your uptime, but if you're booting your box the next time, could you > please add 'mem=9M' (or rip it off if m68k doesn't handle this) to see > if the box is stable while going deeply into swap (start a gcc-3.3 or an > apt-get update). 9MB should be what's remaining after initrd got > decompressed. I'm really interested in the result here... FYI, I run Linux/m68k on a VME crate at work which only has 8 MB of memory. Works fine, if not a bit slow ;-) And I have installed Woody on it. It's painful, it's slow, but it does work. I also run apt-get update regularly... I'm affraid that a hardware problem is a FAR more likely cause of your problems. Linux is/was notorious for being much more 'critical' on problematic hardware. Kind regards, Kars.
