Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58676
Unable to handle Kernel NULL Pointer dereference at virtual Address 00000000
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:39:08 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt) Description of problem: After installing RedHat Linux 7.2 the immediate following boot fails, the screen to too fast to gather when it began to fail - all I can write is what is left on the screen. I have disabled the USB and ONBoard Sound Chips(whatever) on the BIOS and pulled out the SCSI and Network cards. It still will not boot successfully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Turn on Computer 2. Select Linux from Lilo Prompts 3. Most the time it will get somewhere past "Checking For New Hardware" before it Kernel Panics. Actual Results: Never received a Login prompt. Additional info: Checking for New Hardware | | code: 89 08 eb 2c 90 8d 74 26 00 8b 46 08 8b 51 04 8b 58 04 8b 01 <1> Unable to handle Kernel Null Pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip c0114244 *pde=00000000 Oops: 0000 cpu: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0114244>] EFLAGS:00010086 eax: c633ec88 ebx:00000000 ecx:00000001 edx:00000003 esi: c13b3340 edi:00000001 ebp:c0259ecc esp:c025qeb4 ds: 0018 es 0018 ss 0018 Process Swapper(pid:0, Stackpage=c059000) Stack:00000086 00000003 c63ec88 c63ec40 c13b3340 00000008 00000001 c0180143 c633ec40 00000001 c13b3340 c13c4080 00000246 c02e1ae0 c018ace8 c13b3340 00000001 c02eid44 012e1c54 00c13b3340 c02eic54 c0194d80 00000001 call trace:[<c018143>][<c018ace8>] c0194d80 c018c630 c0194d10 c01082aa c01084s8 c0105390 c0105390 c0208760 c0105390 c0105390 c01053b3 c0105432 c0105000 c020e760 Code 8b 13 0f 0d 02 eb 6b 90 8b 74 26 00 8b 4b fc 8b 01 85 45 ec <0> Kernal Panic: Aiee, Killing Interrupt Handler In interrupt Handler - not syncing <<< If I typed everything perfectly! >>>
Is this an athlon machine ?
Sorry to not have put this in originally. Also: This is not a crisis! It is my new home PC. Yes - The CPU is an AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz. Mother Board: SY-K7VTA-Pro Version 2AA5 ( Soyo ) Socket 462 For AMD Athlon VIA KT133A AGP 266MHz Front Side Bus. Audio Controller: VIA AC '97 Audio Controller (WDM) VIA VT83C572/VT82C586 PCI to USB. NIC: D-Link DFE-530TX+ PCI Adapter VIA Bus Master PCI IDE Controller Vidio: Nvidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 Pro ( 32MB Memory ).
Ok, would you mind looking at bug 55040 and see if the workaround in that works for you ?
I received your message about the "noathlon" option. I will try it when I get home tonight. My only issue - now - is ; I prefer Lilo ( I'm used to it since Biltmore (4.2) and Appolo ( 5.2 ): could you E-mail me a quick update as to how to use the "noathlon" in it? Thanks again for your time ( and patience! ).
sure you can test it in lilo simple: just type "linux noathlon" on the lilo prompt. That should work. If it does, you need to add the following line to the lilo.conf section: append "noathlon" or if there already is an append line you should add noathlon to that line, separated from the other options by a space. Don't forget to run "lilo" afterwards to activate the change.
Now I am Impressed!!! The Install of 7.2 went perfectly - no runs no errors! Obviously - this error bug#58676 can be closed. Thanks again Dave.
If you install the yesterday released erratakernel the biosbug is worked around and the athlon kernel will just work....