Hello ... Linux version 2.5.70-bk15 (root@macbeth) (gcc version 3.3 (Debian)) #9 SMP Tue Jun 10 15:25:41 CEST 2003 Video mode to be used for restore is f00 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000c000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 192MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f5620 hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 49152 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 45056 pages, LIFO batch:11 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 6:3 APIC version 17 Processor #1 6:3 APIC version 17 I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Processors: 2 Building zonelist for node : 0 Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=801 video=matroxfb:vesa:0x11A console=ttyS1,57600n8 console=tty0 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes) Detected 233.923 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 459.77 BogoMIPS Memory: 191236k/196608k available (1725k kernel code, 4712k reserved, 396k data, 340k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) -> /dev -> /dev/console -> /root CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conforance testing by UNIFIX CPU0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04 per-CPU timelice cutoff: 1465.81 usecs. task migration cache decay timeout: 2 msecs. enabledExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000 ESR value after enabing vector: 00000000 Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000 Initializing CPU#1 masked ExtINT on CPU#1 ESR value before enabling ector: 00000000 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 Calibrating delay loo... 465.92 BogoMIPS CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled n CPU#1. CPU1: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04 Total of 2 processors acivated (925.69 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. ..TIMER: vecto=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0 testing the IO APIC....................... ................................... done. Using local APIC timer interrupts. calibrating APIC timer .. ..... CPU clock speed is 233.0815 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 66.0804 MHz. checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed. Starting migration thread for cpu 0 Bringing up 1 CPU 1 IS NOW UP! Starting migration thread for cpu 1 CPUS done 2 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs. mtrr: corrected configuration. Initializing RT netlink socket PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfacd0, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 BIO: pool of 256 setup, 14Kb (56 bytes/bio) biovec pool[0]: 1 bvecs: 256 entries (12 bytes) biovec pool[1]: 4 bvecs: 256 entries (48 bytes) biovec pool[2]: 16 bvecs: 256 entries (192 bytes) biovec pool[3]: 64 bvecs: 256 entries (768 bytes) biovec pool[4]: 128 bvecs: 256 entries (1536 bytes) biovec pool[5]: 256 bvecs: 256 entries (3072 bytes) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.96 (c) Adam Belay pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block request queues: 4/128 requests per read queue 4/128 requests per write queue enter congestion at 15 exit congestion at 17 SCSI subsystem initialized PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 00000000 ebx: cbd93c00 ecx: 00000006 edx: cbd93dcc esi: cbd93c00 edi: 0000102b ebp: 00000d43 esp: cbf8be68 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=cbf8a000 task=c11ff8c0) Stack: c0254888 cbd93c00 0000003f cbd93c00 c01c4f7b cbd93c00 0000003f c0307f00 c01c4fa7 cbd93c00 0000003f c02466e9 cbd93c00 00000000 00000004 cbf8bea8 02900007 85d788e0 c0307fc0 ffffffed cbd93c00 00000000 c01c6222 cbd93c00 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: Bad EIP value. <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! ksymoops: --------- ksymoops 2.4.8 on i686 2.5.70-bk13. Options used -v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux (specified) -K (specified) -L (specified) -o /lib/modules/2.5.70-bk15/ (specified) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (specified) No modules in ksyms, skipping objects Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 00000000 ebx: cbd93c00 ecx: 00000006 edx: cbd93dcc esi: cbd93c00 edi: 0000102b ebp: 00000d43 esp: cbf8be68 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Stack: c0254888 cbd93c00 0000003f cbd93c00 c01c4f7b cbd93c00 0000003f c0307f00 c01c4fa7 cbd93c00 0000003f c02466e9 cbd93c00 00000000 00000004 cbf8bea8 02900007 85d788e0 c0307fc0 ffffffed cbd93c00 00000000 c01c6222 cbd93c00 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: Bad EIP value. >>EIP; 00000000 Before first symbol >>ebx; cbd93c00 <_end+b9fe068/3fc68468> >>edx; cbd93dcc <_end+b9fe234/3fc68468> >>esi; cbd93c00 <_end+b9fe068/3fc68468> >>esp; cbf8be68 <_end+bbf62d0/3fc68468> Trace; c0254888 Trace; c01c4f7b Trace; c01c4fa7 Trace; c02466e9 Trace; c01c6222 Trace; c01c63bc <__pci_device_probe+3c/50> Trace; c01c63ff Trace; c01ee395 Trace; c01ee41f Trace; c01ee5d5 Trace; c01ed661 Trace; c032632c Trace; c0326315 Trace; c0326e22 Trace; c0330cbb Trace; c0330648 Trace; c031694b Trace; c012f27f Trace; c01050d8 Trace; c0105080 Trace; c0107229 <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! I use a plain kernel form ftp.xx.kernel.org with the aic79xx-linux-2.5-20030603-tar.gz package from: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ -> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105346338023590&w=2) mfg boris