From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from math.duke.edu (augustus.math.duke.edu [152.3.25.8]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06E0020AAE0E for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:08:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from ph4tp1p3 (ph4tp1p3 [152.3.25.77]) by math.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g32H3Yg22484 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 12:03:34 -0500 From: John Matthews To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 (1.0.2-2.7x) Date: 02 Apr 2002 12:03:34 -0500 Message-Id: <1017767014.17151.12.camel@ph4tp1p3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.0 install CD (stage2/stage3) kernel panic(?) from PCMCIA Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 94223308-6cee-4c03-bbfe-631e549aeb39 X-Archives-Hash: 40b8bd6444fba276439c4c9350ae8568 I have successfully bootstrapped a Gentoo 1.0_rc6 system in the past, and the PCMCIA stuff for that install CD worked great. I am rebuilding system using Gentoo 1.0 install CD (going straight to stage 3, having backed up /etc to a safe place, and then nuked all old Gentoo install). The install looks about the same except that it detects a SCSI subsystem that the 1.0_rc6 CD didn't find. Then if I insmod (or modprobe) pcmcia_core I get what appears to be a kernel panic. I lose control of the system and page after page of numbers (looks like addresses, whatnot) go streaming by. I cannot stop it to see what they are and I cannot capture the data. Laptop is a Compaq Armada 1700. (I don't think this has anything to do with the cards. Same result when no cards inserted.) I have gotten system mostly working now. I didn't do any network stuff and just installed the stage 3 tarball and other housekeeping. Then rebooted using 1.0_rc6 CD. Enabled networking with this working kernel and chroot-ed into the new 1.0 stage 3 I had installed. Was able to emerge kernel-sources and will build from there. If the Gentoo devs are following this, I thought they might want to know that something in PCMCIA support changed between 1.0_rc6 and 1.0 that makes the install painful, but no impossible. Certainly not for the people that don't know to work around it somehow. If I should file a bugzilla report, let me know. I suspect there may be a kernel option around this or a module parameter, but am not knowledgeable enough to know what. Regards and thanks, matt -- Matt Matthews \ ph: 919.660.2811 \ Use GNU/Linux _o) w00t Duke Univ., Postdoc\ jvmatthe@math.duke.edu \____________ /\\ Dept. of Mathematics\ http://www.math.duke.edu/~jvmatthe/ \ _\_V