On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:51:00PM +0100, Michael Gellhaus wrote: > Hi > > I have a problem installing woody on my new Asus P4P8X board. > when I start from cd and enter bf24 at the promt, it will try to > start, till it gets to the HDD's. Then I get some numbers, > Bad EIP Value and Kernel Panic??? is there anybody who > can tell me what that means??? > If I start Kernel 2.2 it starts up fine, but all the hardware > seams not to be detected. takeing a look into the pci-list > only shows intel unknown device for every pci device, > even a 3com 905 tx-m, which runs perfect on my other woody > ( gigabyte BX2000+ board), is not detected. > if anyone has an idea how to get debian on this machine, just let me know. >
I'm new to Debian, but I suppose my comments wouldn't hurt anyways. The only instance of "Bad EIP value" I can find in the kernel source comes from the "traps.c" file in line 239. http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/i386/kernel/traps.c#L239 225 if (in_kernel) { 226 227 printk("\nStack: "); 228 show_stack((unsigned long*)esp); 229 230 printk("\nCode: "); 231 if(regs->eip < PAGE_OFFSET) 232 goto bad; 233 234 for(i=0;i<20;i++) 235 { 236 unsigned char c; 237 if(__get_user(c, &((unsigned char*)regs->eip)[i])) { 238 bad: 239 printk(" Bad EIP value."); 240 break; 241 } 242 printk("%02x ", c); 243 } 244 } The numbers you are getting appear to be the stack at the time of the kernel panic. According to the Intel documentation somewhere, the abort occurs when the control unit is unable to store a meaningful value in the "eip" register, which is supposed to contain the memory address of the instruction that caused an exception fault. In other words, this seems to point to a hardware issue. What are the lines that you get immediately before the system spits out these messages to the screen? You mention in your email it happens after detecting the HDD. Is there any mention to a given *.c file from the kernel source? Just to give you an example, here is a case where it is the USB code causing the panic: usb.c USB disconnect on device 00:02.1-0 address 1 Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f8836bd1 printing EIP: *pde=37afb067 *pte=00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU:0 EIP: 0010:[<f8836bd1>] Not tainted ... (some more lines) code: Bad EIP value Here is some information I found in a Mandrake forum: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3#kt266a Also, did you verify that the motherboard is fully supported? ---------------- Nitebirdz http://www.sacredchaos.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
