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Old 09-27-2017, 12:10 PM   #1
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kernel panic!


Got a refurbished Dell T3600, wiped Windows 10, bunged in my Slackware64 14.2 DVD, booted up, loading kernel...then disaster! Couldn't take a photo, camera battery flat, but the error ended with:
Code:
Kernel Panic - not syncing:Attempted to kill int! 
exit code=0x00000009
Tried Slackware Live, loaded & ran OK, wouldn't install.
Tried Mint 18.2, installed and running - no problem.
Googled but with no luck.
What's the difference between the Slackware and Mint installers?
REALLY want Slack on this beast!!!
Edit: more details:
Legacy BIOS
Xeon E5-1650, 16 GB RAM

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Old 09-27-2017, 12:31 PM   #2
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Tried Slackware Live, loaded & ran OK, wouldn't install.
Which slackware live did you try? The Xfce live doesn't have option to install to hard drive, all others do.
 
Old 09-27-2017, 12:34 PM   #3
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The full version, which is more or less a duplicate of the install DVD (slackware-live-current.iso).
Another edit:
It got to the same stage of booting as the install DVD, loading kernel, then froze with the same error message.

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Old 09-27-2017, 12:54 PM   #4
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Can you see 1st fcn name after "Call Trace:"? Or EIP: somefcn+...
Might there be a msg like can't mount root just before?
(PM'ed you about sundialsvcs "sticky" fyi in case you hadn't seen it)
VeryWildGuess: GPU model? Try kernel boot parms like noapic nomodeset ...
Not totally the distro, just their chosen kernel&driver config. Try ?other.s?
I think the 00009 (vs 00b etc) is tellng us something, but Idk....

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Old 09-27-2017, 01:08 PM   #5
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Can you see 1st fcn name after "Call Trace:"?
Might there be a msg like can't mount root just before?
(PM'ed you about sundialsvcs "sticky" fyi in case you hadn't seen it)
Have to get my camera battery charged, then take a photo. There were some details after Call trace, but can't remember what they all said.
Yeah, I read sundialsvc's thread. Helpful, but not in this case.
 
Old 09-27-2017, 01:23 PM   #6
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Just need a couple words (maybe not whole pic),
like: fooLPfcn after sysD_not_found msg
And the 'good stuff' may have scrolled off
(anyone know how to catch it???
Not relevant cuz cpu halted, but is this 2.0kernel tldp the latest??)
(I edited in a bit more junk into my post, while you were replying, sorry)

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Old 09-27-2017, 02:28 PM   #7
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Old 09-27-2017, 02:37 PM   #8
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What puzzles me is why would Mint install and run perfectly, but not Slackware? I looked through all the options in the BIOS setup menus, to see if anything was interfering. Not used to having problems with Slackware.
 
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Try retain_initrd
 
Old 09-28-2017, 05:40 AM   #10
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Try retain_initrd
Would that be at the boot options prompt?
Actually made a bit of progress. Did another websearch on "exit code=0x00000009", found a Ubuntu user who'd solved it by reverting to an older kernel. So I tried Slackware64 14.0, and it installed OK, lilo in the root partition (/dev/sda3). Websearched for chainloading lilo from grub2, found something that didn't work, so just ran update-grub. Slack was added to the menu. Rebooted into Slackware. Things seemed OK, then it froze when it reached this:
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Old 09-28-2017, 09:33 AM   #11
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It might just be an issue with the kernel in 14.2. Have you tried the -current ISO to see if that boots fine? If so, you should be able to boot off that ISO and then point the installer to 14.2 packages. You could either try the patched kernel for 14.2 or just install the kernel from -current (or an even newer one from 55020's dusk project... he has 4.12 available).
 
Old 09-28-2017, 10:49 AM   #12
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Yeah, I've tried -current, same results as 14.2. And it can't be just a matter of older vs newer kernels, because Mint is OK using:
Code:
brian@mintdesk ~ $ uname -r
4.10.0-35-generic
 
Old 09-28-2017, 12:36 PM   #13
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Yeah, I've tried -current, same results as 14.2. And it can't be just a matter of older vs newer kernels, because Mint is OK using:
Code:
brian@mintdesk ~ $ uname -r
4.10.0-35-generic
It could still be kernel related. Mint is using 4.10, which neither 14.2 (4.4) or -current (4.9) are using. Plus, as far as I know, they are not vanilla kernels, and they've patched them beyond what you can download at kernel.org. It could also be something with how Pat compiled the Slackware kernel, maybe some option or module is causing the problem.

Can you try with the 14.1 kernel? That is 3.10 based and if you can boot off that for the installer, you should be able to install 14.2 using a local copy (or from another USB drive or CD/DVD disk). Then you could either install the 14.1 kernel, replacing 14.2's or try 55020's 4.12 kernel. It might even work with 14.0's kernel, but I don't know if any of these programs will break with such an old kernel.
 
Old 09-28-2017, 12:40 PM   #14
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I tried with 14.0, with the results mentioned in post #10. It installed OK, then froze part way through first boot.
 
Old 09-28-2017, 01:30 PM   #15
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Time for custom kernel, methinks.
 
  


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