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Hello.

For a friend of mine I ask you for help on a Gentoo-install on an old
computer.

The problem is this:

Hardware: Pentium 120 with Intel FX chipset
Distribution: Gentoo 1.4

The Gentoo-boot-CD boots successful. When checking for PCI-bus the
correct chipset is detected and the PIIX-driver is loaded.
But when building the kernel (PIIX-chipset-driver compiled into kernel)
the (very same) chipset-detection ends in a kernel panic!

My friend tried following options for "PCI Access Mode": "BIOS" and
"ANY" - but neither works. Instead the error message is:

PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus00)
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual adress xxxxxxxx
printing eip:
:
:
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Even the option "Direct" fails, but produces a different error message:

PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus00)
general protection fault ac00
CPU: 0:
:
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

The used kernel sources are "gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r6" and
"vanilla-sources 2.4.22".

Further parameter that might be of interest:
Processor-Type: Pentium-Classic (kernel appropriately configured)
gcc options: -O3 -march=pentium

Has anyone any idea on that problem. Particularly since the
install-CD-kernel works fine at that point. Messages then:

PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0
PCI : Using configuration type 1
PCI : probing PCI hardware
PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI : probing hardware (bus00)
PCI : Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/122e] at 00:07.0

THX4help,
Frank.

Frank Reich wrote:

> Hello.
>
> For a friend of mine I ask you for help on a Gentoo-install on an old
> computer.
>
> The problem is this:
>
> Hardware: Pentium 120 with Intel FX chipset
> Distribution: Gentoo 1.4
>
> The Gentoo-boot-CD boots successful. When checking for PCI-bus the
> correct chipset is detected and the PIIX-driver is loaded.
> But when building the kernel (PIIX-chipset-driver compiled into kernel)
> the (very same) chipset-detection ends in a kernel panic!
>
> My friend tried following options for "PCI Access Mode": "BIOS" and
> "ANY" - but neither works. Instead the error message is:
>
> PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus00)
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual adress xxxxxxxx
> printing eip:
> :
> :
> <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> Even the option "Direct" fails, but produces a different error message:
>
> PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus00)
> general protection fault ac00
> CPU: 0:
> :
> <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> The used kernel sources are "gentoo-sources 2.4.20-r6" and
> "vanilla-sources 2.4.22".
>
> Further parameter that might be of interest:
> Processor-Type: Pentium-Classic (kernel appropriately configured)
> gcc options: -O3 -march=pentium
>
> Has anyone any idea on that problem. Particularly since the
> install-CD-kernel works fine at that point. Messages then:
>
> PCI : PCI BIOS revision 2.10entry at 0xf03b0, last bus 0
> PCI : Using configuration type 1
> PCI : probing PCI hardware
> PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
> PCI : probing hardware (bus00)
> PCI : Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/122e] at 00:07.0
>
> THX4help,
> Frank.
>
Try building a minimal vanilla kernel without acpi or apm support and ensure
you have devfs support in the kernel along with mount at boot.
--
Registered Linux User # 286635

Whyld-Chyld wrote:
> Try building a minimal vanilla kernel without acpi or apm support and ensure
> you have devfs support in the kernel along with mount at boot.
This has all been done.

Any other ideas?

Regards, Frank.