Boot problems

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 10:21:13PM +0200, Pietro Leone wrote:

> My pc is a dual PIII at 600MHz, Adaptec UWSCSI onboard, 512 mB of RAM. The
> first problem is the loading of the modules for the SCSI, at first it is
> recognized and all SCSI devices are detected correctly, later it give me
> these errors (I did not find anything in the log, so i wrote down by
> hand only part of the screen log):
> 
> aic7xxx already loaded
> modprobe: fatal: error inserting aic79xx (/modules/path/aic79xx.ko): no
> such device
> aic79xx: can't be loaded
> missing kernel or user mode driver aic79xx
> 8139too fast ethernet driver 0.9.27
> unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d8d940f8
> ...
> ...
> oops: 0002 [#1]
> preempt
> modules linked in: "a lot of modules names"
> cpu: 0
> "a lot of information i did not write"
> 
> then the computer hangs up.
> 
> I never had such a problem, I tried several distros on this PC,
> Debian Woody (with kernel 2.4), ArchLinux, Gentoo and every day I use
> Mandrake 10.0.
> 
> Where can I find the log of these early messages? I suppose I can not
> find them, because the system, probably, cannot find the hdd.

This is a bug which was fixed some time ago; try the release candidate CD.

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 - mdz