On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 03:21:17AM -0400, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I get a "Machine check in kernel mode" early in the boot when using the > kernel that comes with the woody r0 installer for powermac. I get the same > behaviour whether I boot the uncompressed kernel with bootx, or use the HFS > boot floppy. > > This is on a Mac 8500 which is upgraded with a PowerLogix 350 MHz G4 CPU > card. I think it has 160 MB of ram. I've previously run various 2.2 and > 2.4 kernels with success, although I had occasional freezes with 2.2.18.
G4's will be much happier with the new-powermac (2.4.x) kernel. > I was able to begin the install with a 2.2.19 kernel I had previously been > installed, but unfortunately I can't complete the installation because the > version numbers don't match in the modules (apparently a 2.2.20 kernel is > provided by r0). I need at least the ppp module to complete my > installation. When I get to the point of configuring the drivers, it fails, > and later when I restart and try to connect to the net, it fails again > because it can't load a module. If you have a previous installation, why not apt-get dist-upgrade instead? > Is there a different 2.2.20 kernel I can try, or a pair of driver disks > built for 2.2.19? This seems to have brought me to a halt. I don't have > another Linux mac to build a PowerPC kernel on. I could try doing a > cross-compile on a pentium system, but I've never done that and it sounds > complicated. > > Here's the message I get from the crash: > > fd0: SWIM3 floppy controller > md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 > Machine check in kernel mode. (regs at c05bf9d0) > NIP: C0145E8C XER: 20000100 LR: C0147B2C REGS: c05bf9d0 TRAP: 0200 > MSR: 00009030 [EE, IR, DR, ME] > TASK = c05be000[1] 'swapper' mm-pgd c01f2000 Last syscall: 120 > GPR00: 00000080 C05BFA80 C05BE000 C02F7000 00000070 00000007 00000002 > C03DFC38 > GPR08: C0400000 CC803000 00356000 F2C00000 22462028 002A10A8 00000000 > 00000000 > GPR16: 00000000 00000020 C02080F4 C05BFE4C C05BFA98 00000000 00000000 > C05BFAA8 > GPR24: 0000001F 0000003E C05BA1E0 00000009 00000000 C0220000 C02080F4 > C03F7--- > Call backtrace > C000FBFC C0147B2C C022ADB4 C022AAE0 C0226488 C021CA30 C00049C4 > C0009C6C C0009C6C (this last is repeated something like 27 times - infinite > recursion... it continues:) > Kernel panic: machine check > Rebooting in 180 seconds > > after a while it reboots. If I leave bootx set to boot off this same > kernel, it will boot and crash repeatedly with the same register dump. > > I greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me. My machine addled its > little brain when I had a freeze right in the middle of upgrading a couple > hundred packages this morning, and I eventually decided to reformat > everything but /home and install woody from scratch. Oh. > This is the first time I have attempted to use the woody installer on > powerpc. My previous installation was potato followed by an upgrade to > woody. I have run the woody installer on x86 though. I'd try the new-powermac version (with BootX; it won't fit on a floppy). On my machine, which had the video box checked for 2.2, I had to un-check it for the 2.4 kernel. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
