Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
Mircea Damian wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:20:45AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > > Mircea Damian wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > > > Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) > > Ok. I can do that, but there is nowhere written that

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Mircea Damian
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 10:20:45AM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > Mircea Damian wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) Ok. I can do that, but there is nowhere written that I should do that. If I remember right gc

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > Stand-alone, it can't do anything useful. However, if it generates > > a page-fault due to the read or write, the page-fault handler could > > do "something". Currently, the fault it fatal, probably because > > the passed p

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Mitchell Blank Jr
Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > And here is the broken routine: > > > > 03f4 : [...] > This is not good code. It does the following: > > o Gets a parameter off the stack and puts into eax (a pointer). > o Put the value 1 into ecx. > o Take a byte from the pointed-to location and pu

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > Stand-alone, it can't do anything useful. However, if it generates > a page-fault due to the read or write, the page-fault handler could > do "something". Currently, the fault it fatal, probably because > the passed pointer is invalid. The write-protect test code is

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Brian Gerst
Mircea Damian wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: Upgrade GCC to 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) -- Brian Gerst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel OOPS on boot

2000-10-26 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Mircea Damian wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm unable to boot kernel 2.4.0-test10-pre5 on a: > > > And here is the broken routine: > > 03f4 : > 3f4: 8b 44 24 04 movl 0x4(%esp,1),%eax > 3f8: b9 01 00 00 00 movl $0x1,%ecx > 3fd: 8a 10