Re: kernel panic with Debian sarge 2.4.18 SMP and xfs

["A. L. Meyers" <nospam.look@replyto.because.this.is.invalid.sgi.com>]

Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl> writes:

> At 22:24 1-1-2003 +0100, A. Lucien Meyers wrote:
> >Followed all your suggestions but, alas, exactly the same result.
> >Here is some of the relevant output during the boot process which
> >results in having to press the reset button:
> >
> >FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> >FAT: bogus logical sector size 0
> >invalid operand: 0000
> >CPU:
> >EIP:
> >EFLAGS:
> >Process swapper
> >Call trace:
> >Code:
> ><0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> Did you try to use high optimizations  for the compile?

Just standard setting, O2.  Do you suggest reducing this to 1 or 0?

> Or did you compile a i586 kernel on a AMD K6 machine (which often fails).

No.  Compiled a 686 smp kernel.  Have 2 Pentium Pro processors.

> I suspect that either the following might be a problem:
> - Buggy compiler (what are you using)

Used gcc 2.95.  Is 3.2 required?

> - Compiling for the wrong architecture (what are you compiling for)

What would you suggest? i386?

> - Hardware problem (Failing fan, memory).

Probably not, as the SuSE distrib boots from an xfs partition perfectly
on another disk in the same system.

Lucien
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