2.4.[35] + Dell Poweredge 8450 + Oops on boot

Hello,
I'm trying to get 2.4 to run on a Dell Poweredge 8450, with no luck so
far ..
Below is what I get when I boot a 2.4 kernel (happens in 2.4.3(-ac9)
and 2.4.5(-ac5), 2.2.19 works fine).. I've attached a full boot log and my config settings .. The settings, and kernels I'm trying (at least 2.4.3-ac9) work on other Dell boxes here, such as the 2450, and 6350 (with same internals, ie the raid (dual channel) + nic)...

Quick spec of the box is:
Dell PowerEdge 8450
4x550 Xeon / 2gig
Onboard Adaptec SCSI
AMI MegaRaid Single Channel 16mb
Dual Port Intel EtherExpress Pro/100+

Any ideas as to why this is happening, are welcome :)

If any more information is needed, it can be provided ...

Thanks,
Terry

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isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f68f0
PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:a611, dseg at 400 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000ff48 printing eip:
00003c9c *pde = 00000000

Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP:    0068:[<00003c9c>]
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: 00000001   ebx: 00000002   ecx: 00000001   edx: 00000313
esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: c3feff4a   esp: c3feff28
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c3fef000)
Stack: 00000000 0000d14e c3feff4a c3feff48 00000002 00000313 00000000
0000028e 
       ff80997b 00005889 0000d4e0 00008066 d4e0a81e a7ee0000 0000a6ec
0018a6c4 
       00000018 e4780000 8080c02f 00780000 00780070 ff800002 ffffffff
c3feff88 
Call Trace: [<c01e8db0>] [<c01e9668>] [<c01e9084>] [<c0105035>]

[<c01054bc>]

Code:  Bad EIP value.
 <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

LILO 21.7-5 Loading Linux
Linux version 2.4.5-ac5 (root@dev) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010506 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 08:48:12 EDT 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003ff8000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003ff8000 - 0000000003fffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000003fffc00 - 0000000004000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000004000000 - 0000000080000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
1152MB HIGHMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f6570
hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice.
hm, page 0009e000 reserved twice.
hm, page 0009f000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 524288
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 294912 pages.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: INTEL Product ID: OCPRF100 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #7 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #4 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #5 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #6 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
I/O APIC #0 Version 19 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 4
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=801 console=ttyS0
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 550.052 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1097.72 BogoMIPS
Memory: 2059512k/2097152k available (1309k kernel code, 37216k reserved, 390k data, 200k init, 1179648k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([email protected])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 5850.23 usecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Booting processor 1/4 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
masked ExtINT on CPU#1
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 1097.72 BogoMIPS
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Booting processor 2/5 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#2
masked ExtINT on CPU#2
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 1097.72 BogoMIPS
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#2.
CPU2: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Booting processor 3/6 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#3
masked ExtINT on CPU#3
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 1097.72 BogoMIPS
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#3.
CPU3: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Total of 4 processors activated (4390.91 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 0 ... ok.
..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
testing the IO APIC.......................

.................................... done.
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 550.0839 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.0150 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1000150, slice: 200030 CPU0<T0:1000144,T1:800112,D:2,S:200030,C:1000150>
cpu: 1, clocks: 1000150, slice: 200030
cpu: 2, clocks: 1000150, slice: 200030
cpu: 3, clocks: 1000150, slice: 200030 CPU2<T0:1000144,T1:400048,D:6,S:200030,C:1000150> CPU3<T0:1000144,T1:200016,D:8,S:200030,C:1000150> CPU1<T0:1000144,T1:600080,D:4,S:200030,C:1000150> checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdaca, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 1: assuming transparent Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 02 [IRQ]
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 03 [IRQ]
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 05 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:0f.0 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I0,P0) -> 59 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I4,P0) -> 61 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I10,P0) -> 58 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I10,P1) -> 18 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I12,P0) -> 48 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I15,P3) -> 49 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B2,I0,P0) -> 59 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B3,I0,P0) -> 59 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B4,I4,P0) -> 32 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B4,I5,P0) -> 31 PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B5,I0,P0) -> 59
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f68f0
PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f0000:a611, dseg at 400

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000ff48
 printing eip:
00003c9c
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP:    0068:[<00003c9c>]
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: 00000001   ebx: 00000002   ecx: 00000001   edx: 00000313
esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: c3feff4a   esp: c3feff28
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c3fef000)
Stack: 00000000 0000d14e c3feff4a c3feff48 00000002 00000313 00000000 0000028e 
       ff80997b 00005889 0000d4e0 00008066 d4e0a81e a7ee0000 0000a6ec 0018a6c4 
       00000018 e4780000 8080c02f 00780000 00780070 ff800002 ffffffff c3feff88 
Call Trace: [<c01e8db0>] [<c01e9668>] [<c01e9084>] [<c0105035>] [<c01054bc>] 

Code:  Bad EIP value.
 <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

Your Pnp BIOS crahsed somewhere in the BIOS when we called it - Disable PnP bios support or get a bios update

Just before I got your suggestion, I tried just that (disabling the PNP Bios) .. I looked up the trace addresses in the system.map (which I forgot to include) and saw that it was from the pnp bios) .. It did the trick :) I will also see if there's an updated bios available ..

Thanks!
Terry

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