aug 9th boot.iso kernel panic

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 07:16:09PM +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
 > ons, 09 08 2006 kl. 11:37 -0500, skrev Jason Dravet:
 > > I tried to do an ftp install of the august 9th rawhide and I get a kernel 
 > > panic.  I think stage2 downloads but I am not sure.  During or after the 
 > > stage2 download I get blue screens with lines of gargabe text.  Something 
 > > like 2 screens full of: ASDLKJFA;KLSDJFL;WUW68W4SIEHJTAS;DKLTSJL;DKTAHUS;DG
 > > but with funny characters and various length lines.
 > > 
 > > If I press Ctrl-Alt-Del I get a black screen with the kernel panic on it.  
 > > Here is the little I can provide.  There is at least another screen of 
 > > information that I can't get:
 > > 
 > > code: 00 C7 03 00 01 10 00 8B 5D FC C9 C3 55 89 E5 57 89 C7 56 89 D6 53 8B 
 > > 41 04 89 CB 39 D0 74 17 50 52 68 87 A3 61 C0 E8 D0 04 F4 FF <0F> 0B 1A 00 3C 
 > > A3 61 C0 83 C4 0C 8B 06 39 D8 74 13 50 53 68 C1
 > > EIP: [<C04D6515>] __LIST_ADD+0x1f/0x59 SS:ESP 0068:cffc9d2c
 > > 
 > > The system is a tyan tiger S1832 motherboard (P3 850Mhz) with 256MB of RAM.  
 > > It has an adaptec 2930U2 scsi card with 2 scsi hard drives.  The network is 
 > > an Intel 1000/GT which works great on FC5.  Video card is a Number Nine 
 > > Revolution IV (32MB) and a SGI 1600SW digital LCD panel.
 > > 
 > > Thanks,
 > > 
 > > PS.  Is there a way to get the full kernel panic text dumped to a usb thumb 
 > > drive?  The system does not have a floopy drive and I don't have a second PC 
 > > near by to use the serial console.
 > 
 > Would bugzilla not be a more suitable place to report this?
 
Indeed.  Also, handy tricks to try..
1. boot with vga=1 to get more lines of text onscreen
2. When you get the garbage, flip to the other tty's, where you may find the
   oops in english :)

If you have a digital camera, attaching a jpg of the oops to bugzilla is fine.

		Dave

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