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List:       axp-redhat
Subject:    Re: Compiling a kernel
From:       Niklas Anderzon <xtc () canit ! se>
Date:       1997-11-27 15:43:21
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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Tack wrote:

> I just installed RedHat 4.2 on my AlphaStation 200 (32mb RAM and 64mb of
> swap; firmware is SRM).  I am experiencing a problem when I try to compile
> the kernel: it gets a good way through the compile until it dies and spews
> the following error: 
> 
> Couldn't get a free page.....
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000398011
> cc1(2394): Oops 0
> pc = [<fffffc0000382a90>] ps = 0000
> rp = [<fffffc0000386be0>] sp = fffffc00002e7598
> r0=1 r1=2 r2=0 r3=7
> r8=fff
> r16=fffffc0000a9e900 r17=9df6c r18=df6d r19=400
> r20=400 r21=e5f r22=3 r23=ffff
> r24=9f06c r25=2000 r26=fffffc0000386be0 r27=fffffc0000382a38
> r28=1 r29=fffffc00004945c8 r30=fffffc00002e7598
> Code: 27ba0011  23bd1b44  c3e00137 <2c2a0011> 41423409  482900c1  
> e4200005  454a
> 0410  a77daf70
> cpp: output pipe has been closed
> gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
> 
> (Do those numbers actually mean anything to mortal humans?)
> 
> Can anyone shed some insight to this problem?  I'm very new to the Alpha 
> scene (2 days), and so I freely admit I'm a bit clueless on the subject.  
> I'm using GCC 2.7.2.1 which I believe is the latest, and the current 
> kernel is 2.0.30 (the avanti image from the RedHat disk).
> 
> On a different problem ... I downloaded the latest AlphaStation 200 milo 
> image from gatekeeper but it doesn't detect my SCSI drives.  I was able 
> to do the RedHat install (since I booted from a kernel on floppy which 
> did detect SCSI), but I can't boot directly from the drive.  (This is why 
> I need to compile the kernel -- so I could compile a custom milo in the 
> hopes that it would then detect the SCSI devices).
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason Tackaberry,
> jtackabe@eagle.auc.on.ca

Well... it seems to me like you are having the same problem like me.
I have exactly the same machine like you except I have 64MB RAM. I have
heard people saying that there can be troubles if you have 32MB RAM or
less when booting. You could get problems with linload.exe when switching
to PAL-code.
I tried _all_ the milo-images I saw... and there was one, only one, milo
that worked for me. It was a milo i downloaded from:
ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Miniloader/v2.0/pre-2.0.31/Avanti/
This milo was booted from the ARC and it worked propertly. I think at
least you should try that one. Otherwise you can actually use milo's from
XL. It can work too, but it didn't for me.
If you are booting from SRM you should use a milo called avanti-s. The
extension -s means it can be booted from SRM.

Good luck!

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