Re: kernel panic

[James A. Morrison]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 06:47, Mark Ellis wrote:
> On 2003.02.11 04:07 James Morrison wrote:
> > 
> > --- 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?
> > 
> 
> The above was with the 1.3 release tarball. I've tried the latest 
> oskit-mach cvs, got a different panic, not surprising as its the first 
> time i've tried oskit, so i probably got something wrong, i'll play 
> with that a bit more. Is there a bugfix branch for 1.3 ?
> 
> Mark
> 

There is not a bugfix branch for 1.3 because GNU Mach is not developed
enough to bother with one.

James A. Morrison