On 1/26/07, Finn Thain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Steve Brown wrote: > Hi m68k folks -- > > I have a Mac Quadra 700 which is running sarge. I installed kernel > 2.2.25 from the abandoned(?) Mac page at http://mac.linux-m68k.org/ ; > more specifically, the kernel here: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11666 > It reports its version as: > Linux version 2.2.25 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian > prerelease > )) #1 Fri Sep 5 17:57:09 EDT 2003 > > I assumed this was the same as the Debian stable kernel. I can get > maybe four days' uptime with this kernel before the system locks up. > I recently got a serial console working and got a dump of the panic > text: > http://pastey.net/5543 > Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on a list (from 000e21c6). > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 That's the SONIC driver bug. It has been fixed in 2.6. > What should I do? I would like to keep this system as low-maintenance > as possible. Should I upgrade to the 2.4 or 2.6 lines? What is the > best stable kernel for Macs these days? The Q700 should be ok with this one (depending on what sort of nubus cards you want to use with it): http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/linux-image/linux-image-2.6.18-4-mac_2.6.18-9_m68k.deb Only trouble is you'll need to extract the vmlinux.gz and make it available to the bootloader under MacOS. > Am I using the completely wrong kernel and should I go for the official > Debian one? No, 2.2.25 is generally OK... you were unlucky. Macs running 2.6 don't yet have a working real time clock, so use ntp to set the clock at boot up, and disable the timestamp based fsck with tune2fs -i 0 /dev/sdXY before you boot into 2.6. You'll probably want to upgrade to etch too. -f > Thanks very much for your help. > > Steve Brown > > >
Thanks very much for the tips. I'll try it and see how it works. Steve Brown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
