On Tue, 2 May 2006, Frans Pop wrote: > reassign 365730 linux-2.6 > retitle 365730 [powerpc] [d-i] Oops when booting from usb flash drive > thanks > > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 14:07, Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > Installer crashes with an oops, 'Unable to handle kernel paging > > request'. Crash at same place in boot with two different usb sticks, > > but different tasks and locations listed in the stack trace, which is > > strange. > > Reassigning to the kernel team as they know more about oopses than us > simple installer folk. > The installation report contains loads of detailed info. > > This may be user error though as I would expect booting from usb stick to > require a hd-media image (like for i386), though I'm not sure of that.
I would do this but the hd-media for ppc is only the 32bit one. Does it matter? I have booted other cd images from the usb stick on ppc. It seems to work as long as the 'cd' driver gets mapped ok. > > Toni: You may also want to try with a new daily build of the installer > which uses a 2.6.16 kernel. Note that the powerpc cd builds have been > broken for a while, but we expect to get (finally) new ones in tonight's > run, so check the date before you download. > Will they have the zilog serial issue fixed? Thanks, Toni ------------------------------------------------------------------- Toni Harbaugh-Blackford [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) National Cancer Institute Contractor - SAIC/Frederick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]