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Article #189Re: upgrading to P100 problems
From: Ahmed Masud
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00
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James McOrmond wrote: > > I keep getting dumps such as this one: > > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: general protection: 0000 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: CPU: 0 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: EIP: 0010:0013547b > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: EFLAGS: 00010082 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: eax: 0169236c ebx: 0169236c ecx: 00000046edx: 00113a7c > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: esi: 00000212 edi: 0000c218 ebp: 001bc5ccesp: 01e30d94 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: Process sendmail (pid: 245, process nr: 66, stackpage=01e30000) > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: Stack: 001835f0 0169236c 0169236c 001bc5cc 00000002 0169236c 001bc5cc 00000000 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: 00000001 0013535b 0169236c 001bc5cc 0169231c 00000202 001bc5cc 0169236c > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: 0013ca38 00000202 0013ca6e 0169236c 001bc5cc 00000001 01c0dc00 01e30f00 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: Call Trace: 001835f0 0013535b 0013ca38 0013ca6e 00147ce2 001322d0 0012a672 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: 00145914 001456c0 00145a09 00145a44 00147a31 00132dc9 001337c5 0010a369 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: Code: 02 51 9d ff 0f 84 3a 1b 00 0f ba 2d 14 25 1b 00 04 19 d2 c3 > May 14 16:44:27 Server kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler > > different tasks, not just sendmail, often its innd. > > I've just upgraded to a P100 CPU & MB, from a 486dx4-100. > > I've not re-compiled the kernel yet, as GCC won't run. It gives me messages > like this one. > > # make zlilo > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 > -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -m386 -c -o init/main.o init/main.c > gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 > make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 > # > > it also complains a lot about problems with paging virtual memory. > > This is a brand new MB,with a 100Mhz pentium, onboard IO. > Linux 1.3.37 kernel > Slackware 3.0 (december) installation, GCC 2.7.0 It is highly recommended that you boot the 1.2.13 kernel b4 you attempt to recompile your kernel. ALL 1.3.xx kernels are Beta and do cause protection-faults all over the place with the newer bios. Unless you really know what you are doing ( i.e. you are a kernel programming wizard ) avoid this kind of stuff. After you have installed the 1.2.13 kernel, you need to do the following: make clean make config **NOTE: In make config here you want -m486 optimizations also you have a math-co processor ( as it is built-in the 486 chip ) make dep make zlilo > > Mach 32 PCI video > NCR 53c810 SCSI ( w/ 2 quantum SCSI drives) > Digital Etherworks3 - ethernet > *grin* nice machine,.. > -- > James A McOrmond - Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA - Home of JamMail/WPL! > Amiga 3000T-25Mhz/10Megs/1G - Linux 486DX4-100/32Megs/1.7G
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100333,554a78e1846675b5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid100333,public X-Google-Thread: 102b32,554a78e1846675b5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102b32,public X-Google-Thread: 111a4f,554a78e1846675b5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid111a4f,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,554a78e1846675b5,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-Thread: 100b1f,554a78e1846675b5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid100b1f,public From: Ahmed Masud <masud@geod.emr.ca> Subject: Re: upgrading to P100 problems Date: 1996/05/20 Message-ID: <31A0024E.4372@geod.emr.ca> X-Deja-AN: 155692728 sender: news@emr1.emr.ca x-nntp-posting-host: slipmasud.geod.emr.ca references: <4nashi$h3@Server.Jammys.Net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,achilles.general,ott.general x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I)