[lug] unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address00XXXXXXX

[John Karns]

Sorry, I guess I should have been more explicit, but I was referring to a
method to enable booting the machine in order to make the necessary
corrections to fix the problem; not necessarily as a means to troubleshoot
the problem.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net


On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, D. Stimits said:

> John Karns wrote:
> >
> > He could also try booting from a rescue disk - either something like toms
> > root boot, a floppy made from an image on the RH CD's, or the RH CD
> > itself.  I assume that one of the RH CD's is bootable and offers a rescue
> > mode boot.
>
> ksymoops is specific not only to the kernel configuration, but to the
> order of loading modules. ksymoops and oops output is only relevant to
> the exact kernel it is from, so although he could run ksymoops from
> another kernel, the output would be completely useless (and completely
> wrong). The alternative is to set up a serial console and kdb (the
> kernel debugger) to get a stack frame from a second machine at the time
> of oops (this should work in most cases, supposedly even if the system
> locks up). But trying a more recent kernel is the easiest thing to try
> next.