i have an old pII 233 here that i've been using as a fileserver. just a few
days ago, i realised that i'd not installed the latest kernel so i did the
following:
cd /usr/src/
cp linux/.config linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5
rm linux
ln -s linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r5 linux
cd linux
make oldconfig
<answered a bunch of questions>
make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
the compile went fine and i rebooted, and i was met by a kernel panic just
after the iptables stuff:
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured established 16384 bind 32768
IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2048 buckets, 16384 max) - 168 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 200-2002 Netfilter core team
Unable to handle kernel Null pointer dereference at virtual address 00000010
printing eip:
c019f029
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c019f029>]
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax 00000000 ebx: c0186f74 ecx: 00000000 edx: c012b928
esi: 00000000 edi: c0125000 ebp: 0008e000 esp: c1zc7fc8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1ac7000)
Stack: c0125000 c0186f74 c0187792 c032aa2e c01a0253 00000000 00010f00 c011ffb8
c0125000 0008e000 c01a257e 00000000 c01a0240 c011e000
Call Trace: [<c01a0253>] [<c01a257e>] [<c01a0240>]
Code: ff 40 10 a1 28 b2 11 c0 83 48 14 18 a1 18 b2 11 c0 ff 40 10
<0> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
figuring i'd just gibbled the compile or something, i rebooted and selected my
"safe" kernel from grub (the one i had before this one). and i got exactly
the same error.
so now i'm thinking my hardware's broken, or maybe my boot partition is
cooked... so i pull out the gentoo boot cd:
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
cd /mnt/gentoo/boot
ls -la
<everything appears fine>
so i recompile the kernel, this time removing some of the more questionable
stuff from the kernel (everything under iptables that said "experimental"
and... nothing. same error message.
what i'm looking to find out is whether or not this is fixable by either (a)
some sort of minor fix (what'd i do?) or (b) a full re-install. or am i
looking at having to buy new hardware? please o please help me! :-)
thanks be to anyone who can help me out here.
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