Hey all,
I've put together a new system with and am having no luck installing FC5 or FC6-T2, both in text mode.
On FC5, I needed a driver for something or other, can't remember what, but it didn't look encouraging. I did manage to get the language and keyboard layout screens. Anyway, I went on to try FC6-T2.
On test-2, I get an immediate kernel panic. It says:
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Leftover inexact backtrace: ... Code: ... EIP: ... <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
(I can fill in the blanks if anybody would find it useful).
This is all very repeatable.
The system consists of: Asus P5B mobo Core2Duo 6400 2x1 GB OCZ DDR2 / 800 MHz nVidia 7300 GS (PCI Express) 400GB Seagate SATA/300 attached to Intel ICH8 (either IDE or AHCI mode, doesn't matter)
Any ideas? -- Drew
Drew Bertola wrote:
Hey all,
I've put together a new system with and am having no luck installing FC5 or FC6-T2, both in text mode.
On FC5, I needed a driver for something or other, can't remember what, but it didn't look encouraging. I did manage to get the language and keyboard layout screens. Anyway, I went on to try FC6-T2.
On test-2, I get an immediate kernel panic. It says:
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Leftover inexact backtrace: ... Code: ... EIP: ... <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
(I can fill in the blanks if anybody would find it useful).
This is all very repeatable.
The system consists of: Asus P5B mobo Core2Duo 6400 2x1 GB OCZ DDR2 / 800 MHz nVidia 7300 GS (PCI Express) 400GB Seagate SATA/300 attached to Intel ICH8 (either IDE or AHCI mode, doesn't matter)
Any ideas?
As far as I know it can't be worked around. I ran into the same problem with my new Core 2 Duo system. I opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201977 and it was closed as rawhide. kernel-2.6.17-1.2543.fc6 works for me. I am currently running FC5 on mine for working Nvidia binary drivers. Xorg 7.1 in FC6 isn't properly compatible with the ATI or Nvidia binary drivers.
I still have serious problems though. The onboard Jmircon JMB363 sata/pata controller is disabled on boot. Hence I had to go out and get a sata optical drive. My dual onboard gigabit r8168 network cards don't work either. I found a set of patches for 2.6.18rc2, which is older than the latest development kernel, http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.18-rc2/r8169/ They don't seem to have been merged with the main tree. There is also a driver from Realtek, from what I have read, but it's quality is questionable.
Skipping disabled JMB363 IDE controller.
My system is mostly unrecognized by lspci.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a0 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a1 (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2834 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2835 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283a (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Unknown device 284b (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283f (rev 02) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2843 (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2847 (rev 02) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2849 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2830 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2831 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2832 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2836 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2810 (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2821 (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283e (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0391 (rev a1) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8168 (rev 01) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Unknown device 8168 (rev 01) 05:00.0 RAID bus controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02) 06:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 06:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 06:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) 06:06.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04) 06:06.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04)
My system:
Abit AB9 Pro Core 2 Duo 6600 2x1gb OCZ DDR2 PC6400 nVidia 7600 GT 4x250gb Seagate 7200.8 Plextor PX-755SA dvd burner
Nathan Grennan wrote:
As far as I know it can't be worked around. I ran into the same problem with my new Core 2 Duo system. I opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201977 and it was closed as rawhide. kernel-2.6.17-1.2543.fc6 works for me. I am currently running FC5 on mine for working Nvidia binary drivers. Xorg 7.1 in FC6 isn't properly compatible with the ATI or Nvidia binary drivers.
I still have serious problems though. The onboard Jmircon JMB363 sata/pata controller is disabled on boot. Hence I had to go out and get a sata optical drive. My dual onboard gigabit r8168 network cards don't work either. I found a set of patches for 2.6.18rc2, which is older than the latest development kernel, http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.18-rc2/r8169/ They don't seem to have been merged with the main tree. There is also a driver from Realtek, from what I have read, but it's quality is questionable.
Thanks, that helps a ton. I disabled the Jmicron controller and booted FC5 (cd disc 1) of my trusty Sony USB CD. This was successful.
I may just go get a PATA->SATA converter to hook up the DVD burner to one of the ICH8 ports, rather than the JMicron PATA port.
If I get a chance, I'll try this approach with the FC6-t2 DVD install.
Thanks again, -- Drew
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:10:50PM -0700, Drew Bertola wrote:
I may just go get a PATA->SATA converter to hook up the DVD burner to one of the ICH8 ports, rather than the JMicron PATA port.
If I get a chance, I'll try this approach with the FC6-t2 DVD install.
FC6t2 will ceash on boot with a Jmicron chip present owing to a really dumb mistake I made. The good news is that Jmicron stuff including PATA should all work by 2.6.18 final as I've sent a fix.
Alan
Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:10:50PM -0700, Drew Bertola wrote:
I may just go get a PATA->SATA converter to hook up the DVD burner to one of the ICH8 ports, rather than the JMicron PATA port.
If I get a chance, I'll try this approach with the FC6-t2 DVD install.
FC6t2 will ceash on boot with a Jmicron chip present owing to a really dumb mistake I made. The good news is that Jmicron stuff including PATA should all work by 2.6.18 final as I've sent a fix.
Thanks Alan. For now I'll just try with the Jmicron disabled and the DVD jimmied up to the ICH8 controller with a converter.
Hopefully, that will get me far enough along to try t2.
Will the changes in 2.6.18 be in t3 kernel?
-- Drew
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 02:53:58PM -0700, Drew Bertola wrote:
Thanks Alan. For now I'll just try with the Jmicron disabled and the DVD jimmied up to the ICH8 controller with a converter.
Hopefully, that will get me far enough along to try t2.
Should do.
Will the changes in 2.6.18 be in t3 kernel?
I would hope so but thats for Dave to decide. I've sent him the patch and tagged it in bugzilla so hopefully it and the other urgent IDE patch (support for VIA 8237A) will make it either way
Alan
Alan Cox wrote:
I would hope so but thats for Dave to decide. I've sent him the patch and tagged it in bugzilla so hopefully it and the other urgent IDE patch (support for VIA 8237A) will make it either way
Alan,
Will the vt8237a patch you mention enable a system equipped with that device to boot from a sata (only) drive? I'm applying a one-line patch to sata_via.c right now to make it work.
Thanks, Jay
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:51:49PM -0500, Jay Cliburn wrote:
Alan,
Will the vt8237a patch you mention enable a system equipped with that device to boot from a sata (only) drive? I'm applying a one-line patch to sata_via.c right now to make it work.
This is the PATA side, I know Jeff was sent patches for the SATA side.
Drew Bertola wrote:
Nathan Grennan wrote:
As far as I know it can't be worked around. I ran into the same problem with my new Core 2 Duo system. I opened https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201977 and it was closed as rawhide. kernel-2.6.17-1.2543.fc6 works for me. I am currently running FC5 on mine for working Nvidia binary drivers. Xorg 7.1 in FC6 isn't properly compatible with the ATI or Nvidia binary drivers.
I still have serious problems though. The onboard Jmircon JMB363 sata/pata controller is disabled on boot. Hence I had to go out and get a sata optical drive. My dual onboard gigabit r8168 network cards don't work either. I found a set of patches for 2.6.18rc2, which is older than the latest development kernel, http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.18-rc2/r8169/ They don't seem to have been merged with the main tree. There is also a driver from Realtek, from what I have read, but it's quality is questionable.
Thanks, that helps a ton. I disabled the Jmicron controller and booted FC5 (cd disc 1) of my trusty Sony USB CD. This was successful.
I may just go get a PATA->SATA converter to hook up the DVD burner to one of the ICH8 ports, rather than the JMicron PATA port.
If I get a chance, I'll try this approach with the FC6-t2 DVD install.
I have some PATA to SATA converters and they are hard drive only. I forgot that and tried one with my PATA drive, and of course it didn't work.
I found the Abit AB9 Pro didn't reliable recognize hard drives on reboot. So I bought a Asus P5B Deluxe, revision 1.03G, and plan on returning the AB9 Pro. The P5B has the ICH8 controller and Jmicron controller. Because they are the same I didn't have to reinstall Windows. It lacks the Silicon Image controller of the AB9 Pro, but my case is maxed out already using the six ICH8 ports. The P5B does seem to reliable recognize the drives, though sometimes it is slow about it.
The P5B has two different Marvell network cards instead of the Realtek 8168 cards of the AB9 Pro. The first Marvell is a 88E8001. It works with the skge driver. The second is a 88E8056, which isn't recongized. I suspect it should work with the sky2 driver, but the driver lacks the pci ids. It could also be the skge driver though.
The hardware is still mostly unrecognized by lspci.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a0 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 29a1 (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2834 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2835 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283a (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Unknown device 284b (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283f (rev 02) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2849 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2830 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2831 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2832 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2836 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2810 (rev 02) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2821 (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 283e (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0391 (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 4364 (rev 12) 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 04:01.0 Ethernet controller: Lite-On Communications Inc LNE100TX (rev 20) 04:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy (rev 04) 04:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy MIDI/Game port (rev 04) 04:02.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy FireWire Port (rev 04) 04:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) 04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
My new system: Asus P5B Deluxe Wifi-edition Core 2 Duo 6600 2x1gb OCZ DDR2 PC6400 nVidia 7600 GT 4x250gb Seagate 7200.8 sata drives 300gb Seagate 7200.9 sata2 drive Plextor PX-755SA dvd burner