problem booting sgi linux

ok, i fixed my problem with /dev/console ... but now it stops just a few lines after that. this is printed to the screen:

Adv: done running setup()
Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
page fault from irq handler: 0000
$0: blah blah blah
$4: blah blah blah
$8: blah blah blah
$12: blah blah blah
$16: blah blah blah
$20: blah blah blah
$24: blah blah blah
epc: 880e3e47
Status: 1004fc02
Cause: 00000008
Aiee, killing interrupt handler

Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

In swapper task: not syncing

then it's stuck... i could write down the "blah blah blah" numbers if they would be helpfull. any ideas?

-E

Could give us a hinv of your Indy ?

Have you tried following kernel

ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test/vmlinux-indy-990212.gz

?

Thomas.

   This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-|
It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^)
                                        [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]

uhm... what's a hinv?

the kernel listed below gives a similar problem. it doesn't blurt out a bunch of error messages, but just like before, it says freeing unused kernel memory, then hangs.

-E

hinv of my indy:

Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 4.1.0 1 200 MHZ IP22 Processor
FPU: MIPS R4010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
CPU: MIPS R4400 Processor Chip Revision: 6.0 On-board serial ports: 2
On-board bi-directional parallel port
Data cache size: 16 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte Main memory size: 64 Mbytes
Integral ISDN: Basic Rate Interface unit 0, revision 1.0 Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Integral SCSI controller 0: version WD33C93B, revision D Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 Graphics board: Indy 24-bit
Vino video: unit 0, revision 0, IndyCam not connected

any ideas as to why every kernel i've tried hangs when it tries to free unused kernel memory? thanks...

-E

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looks like we have still a problem with R4400. Ralf ?

Thomas.

   This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-|
It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^)
                                        [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]

Hi,

Sorry for stepping in here, guys. This isn't strictly SGI related, but...

[root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : MIPS
cpu model : R4400SC V4.0
system type : Digital DECstation 5000/2x0
BogoMIPS : 59.90
byteorder : little endian
unaligned accesses : 0
wait instruction : no
microsecond timers : yes
extra interrupt vector : no
hardware watchpoint : yes
VCED exceptions : 5244
VCEI exceptions : 17100

OTOH there may be significant differences between V4.0 and V6.0, but maybe this helps.

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Regards,
Harald

Nope, no known problem, but we definately have a problem with the R4700. Fixed. Not that Indys would use a R4700 ...

I'll have to get V6.0 erratas, maybe that'll explain something.

Ralf

uhm... does this mean that i'm doing something wrong, or that the software doesn't quite support my hardware?...

-E