Re: GRUB bug

[Goran Koruga]

On Thu, Jan 11 2001, Derrik Pates wrote:

Hi,

I have tried booting 2.4 kernel with GRUB and it works OK for me. I use
don't quite remember which version of grub I use, I think its version string
is 0.5.97 which was not officially released (I fetched it off CVS server).
Try checking /proc/cmdline to see if GRUB passes correct memory info to your
kernel.

Regards,
Goran

> Booting with GRUB on three different SMP machines at my work causes an
> Oops in the kernel (Linux 2.4.0-testX, and 2.4.0 final) in sk_alloc(). I
> do not yet know why, but I'm trying to track it down. These kernels boot
> fine with LILO, but crash reliably (100% of the time, same place) when
> GRUB tries to boot them.
> 
> Kernel trace below:
> 
>  c01c72bb
> *pde = 00003063
> Oops:   0002
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0010:[<c01c72bb>]
> Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
> EFLAGS: 00010246
> eax: 00000000   ebx: fffffcdf   ecx: 000000c3   edx: f7eff000
> esi: 00000006   edi: fffffcdf   ebp: c02bd240   esp: c1e3df88
> ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1e3d000)
> Stack: 00000000 c0241f93 c01efa2a 00000002 00000007 00000001 00000000 00000000
>        c0241f93 0008e000 c027f305 c02bd240 00000006 c027f528 c0263ba0 c026114c
>        c0267fbc 00000000 c027e806 c026114c c1e3c000 c027e850 c0268bb4 c0107029
> Call trace: [<c0241f93>] [<c01efa2a>] [<c0241f93>] [<c0107029>] [<c0109628>]
> Code: f3 ab 8b 44 24 0c 66 89 43 24 c7 43 2c 01 00 00 00 c7 43 4c
> 
> >>EIP; c01c72bb <sk_alloc+2b/68>   <=====
> Trace; c0241f93 <timer_bug_msg+1db3/2a92>
> Trace; c01efa2a <inet_create+1e/1e4>
> Trace; c0241f93 <timer_bug_msg+1db3/2a92>
> Trace; c0107029 <init+29/160>
> Trace; c0109628 <kernel_thread+28/38>
> Code;  c01c72bb <sk_alloc+2b/68>
> 00000000 <_EIP>:
> Code;  c01c72bb <sk_alloc+2b/68>   <=====
>    0:   f3 ab                     repz stos %eax,%es:(%edi)   <=====
> Code;  c01c72bd <sk_alloc+2d/68>
>    2:   8b 44 24 0c               mov    0xc(%esp,1),%eax
> Code;  c01c72c1 <sk_alloc+31/68>
>    6:   66 89 43 24               mov    %ax,0x24(%ebx)
> Code;  c01c72c5 <sk_alloc+35/68>
>    a:   c7 43 2c 01 00 00 00      movl   $0x1,0x2c(%ebx)
> Code;  c01c72cc <sk_alloc+3c/68>
>   11:   c7 43 4c 00 00 00 00      movl   $0x0,0x4c(%ebx)
> 
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