Re: kernel panic

[James Morrison]

--- Mark Ellis <mark.uzumati@virgin.net> wrote:
> On 2003.02.07 14:18 James Morrison wrote:
> > 
> > --- Mark Ellis <mark.uzumati@virgin.net> wrote:
> > > Hi all, getting a panic on boot from gnumach 1.3
> > >
> > > panic: linux_init: alloc_contig_mem failed
> > >
> > > I've found a few other reports from back in August 2001, possibly
> > > relating it to too much RAM, or possibly not. I have 354MB.
> > >
> > > Oddly, the panic occurs when booted off hd1s3, but not off hd1s1,
> > using
> > > both a debian kernel and one cross-comped from linux. Disk layout
> > is:-
> > >
> > > hd1s1 approx 1GB ext2 hurd/gnu
> > > hd1s3 approx 1GB ext2 hurd/gnu
> > > unpartitioned approx 1GB
> > > hd1s2 approx 7GB ext3 linux/gnu
> > >
> > > in that order. Was the previous issue resolved, and does anyone
> > think
> > > it could be related to mine ? Thanks for any insight.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > 
> >  What happens when you set root=device:hd1s2?
> > 
> > 
> 
> It panics. Following up on that idea, it also panics on all of hd0s*, 
> which admittedly is a 40GB disc, but hd0s1 is only 1GB, so i'm 
> surprised it bombed.
> 
> Mark

 This is terribly strange.  Have you had a chance to try compiling gnumach
from cvs?
 


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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2B co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org

Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU

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