Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:05:16PM -0500, Marty wrote: > After thinking more about your problem I suspect that your new kernel has > the wrong processor selected, maybe not the one you think it has. This > will cause a kernel oops early in a boot cycle. As an experiment, you > could try the l

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:39:11PM -0500, Marty wrote: First I would save copies of the partition table and bootloader for future forensic purposes. Too late! I'll try and remember that next time. By the way, how *do* you save copies of the partition table and boot

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:39:11PM -0500, Marty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >OOPS. Forgot to identify the kernel. > > > >This problem occurs with kernels > > 2.4.18-1-386 > > 2.4.18-1-586tsc > >With kernel 2.2.20 I get the complaint about the invalid number of > >physical heads,

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOPS. Forgot to identify the kernel. This problem occurs with kernels 2.4.18-1-386 2.4.18-1-586tsc With kernel 2.2.20 I get the complaint about the invalid number of physical heads, but not the crash. It used to work properly before I did the forced re

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:40:34PM -0500, Marty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >While booting my newly installed woody system (Why not sarge? > >It's a long story which will be told another time) the kernel > >crashes, recovers, and fails to make one of my hard disk > >accessible. > > > >Here

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:56:14AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While booting my newly installed woody system (Why not sarge? > It's a long story which will be told another time) the kernel > crashes, recovers, and fails to make one of my hard disk > accessible. OOPS. Forgot to identify the

Re: kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread Marty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While booting my newly installed woody system (Why not sarge? It's a long story which will be told another time) the kernel crashes, recovers, and fails to make one of my hard disk accessible. Here's the relevant part of the dmesg output: ... ... Uniform Multi-Platform

kernel has null dereference during boot

2005-12-13 Thread hendrik
While booting my newly installed woody system (Why not sarge? It's a long story which will be told another time) the kernel crashes, recovers, and fails to make one of my hard disk accessible. Here's the relevant part of the dmesg output: ... ... Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.3