Kernel Panic - Not Syncing Error

[lkraemer]

Roberts,
I have been using Tinycore 1.42 on my older Compaq Presario 1672 K6-2 350 MHZ 192 Meg RAM with
a 80 Gig IDE Drive, and it boots and runs correctly.

I do get the following message when booting, but it continues to work.

ACPI Unable to load System Description Tables
IDE Generic  IO Resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free
IDE Generic IO Resource 0x170-0x177 not free

But now with Tinycore 2.0 rc2.1, I get the following ERROR and system lockup.

IO APIC Resources cound not be allocated
Kernel Panic - Not Syncing:  Attempted to kill init!

I don't understand the message, and would like to know if I will be able to continue
to use Tinycore on my OLD Compaq?  Is this due to my older BIOS, or something
that can be fixed or bypassed?

Are there any Cheatcodes that would help me be able to continue to use later versions
of Tinycore?

Thanks.

lkraemer

[roberts]

Older computers used APM new ones use ACPI.
Try all the kernel commands to not use ACPI, e.g., noacpi acpi=off
You may want to consult the kernel boot options complete guide
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/lkn/lkn_pdf/ch09.pdf

[curaga]

Also using the "debug" code will show all messages, might give more clue to why it happens

[lkraemer]

The DEBUG code didn't provide any other clue as far as I could detect.
APIC Resources not allocated, then the Kerenel Panic - Not Syncing! messgae.
And it locked up so I can't do a thing, except take a picture of the last screen.

I have also tried all the ACPI commands referenced in Chap 9.  No Luck!

I tried the latest  version 2.0rc3 and have the same problem.  But version 1.43 seems to work fine.

I wish Version 2 worked the same as Version 1.43.

I've tried DSL, Puppy, TinyME Acorn, and really want to keep/follow Tinycore as it develops, if I can.
So far, it has worked fine until the Kernel Panic error on version 2.xx

Suggestions?

Thanks.

lkraemer

[gwalther]

I have had the very same experience with my....very...old thinkpad 760  laptop (no cdrom) .

I can boot  tc 1.4 (using linld from dos)  ...but can not  get  tc 2.0 to boot...
kernel panic about half way thru....It fails right before is normally says...booting tinycore... I also tried lots of boot codes...no luck

I  tried mix and match version 1.4 and 2.0 tinycore.gz and  bzImage...will boot
(with errors) using bzImage 2.0 and tinycore.gz 1.4...but panic using bzImage1.4 and tinycore.gz 2.0.

My tc 2.0 download  is good I think,  because I can use the cd I burned it on to boot ...another  desktop computer.

Would be interested in trying any suggestions....I really like version 2 on my desktop computer.

Note...when booting laptop with 1.4...my pcmcia cards are not automatically found during boot process...I have to modprobe i82365....to get pcmcia to work...don't know if that is relevant or not

G
 

[Juanito]

APIC Resources not allocated, then the Kerenel Panic - Not Syncing! messgae.
And it locked up so I can't do a thing, except take a picture of the last screen.

I have also tried all the ACPI commands referenced in Chap 9.  No Luck!

Maybe you're mixing APIC with ACPI, which are not the same thing? There are various boot codes for both APIC and ACPI...

[lkraemer]

OK, on Version 1.43 I see the following messages:
ACPI Unable to load System Description Tables
IDE Generic  IO Resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free
IDE Generic IO Resource 0x170-0x177 not free

If I use the cheatcode acpi=off, I only get these two error messages, but Tinycore
continues to run perfectly, just as it does without any cheatcode.
IDE Generic  IO Resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free
IDE Generic IO Resource 0x170-0x177 not free

But, on version 2.xx I try the following cheat codes, I see no differences in the booting,
and it still locks up at the Kernel Panic message.

apic=debug
apic=verbose
noapic
nolapic
noapic nolapic
acpi=off noapic nolapic

One interesting thing is that the latest version of Puppy boots fine, but I don't like it, and
don't want to use it.  Same goes for TinyME Acorn, and DSL!

I'm posting this from Tinycore 1.43 on my OLD Compaq 1672.....NICE!

lkraemer

[roberts]

I didn't see this boot option in your list, does pci=noacpi help?

[gwalther]

I am following this thread quite closely as I have the very same problem...same messages....same panic.....with my old laptop. (version 1.4 works)

I tried  all the codes including pci=noacpi...
also tried rootdelay=3 (in case my old hdd was slow), nomce nousb noexec
and noirqbalance and finally irqfixup.

It looks like it panics just when it should  launch tinycore

[Juanito]

Just to be doubly sure - in the upgrade from tc_1.x to tc_2.x were both bzImage and tinycore.gz replaced?

[gwalther]

I am not the originator of this thread...so hope I am not confusing the issue
but I have the identical problem...as i noted above

when I boot with version 2 bzImage and version 2 tinycore I get same panic and last
message as originator got

if i boot with version 2.0 bzImage...and version 1.4 tinycore.gz...it does not crash
... it gives the same  "IO APIC Resources could not be allocated" message...but
it goes past that and thru  "Booting tincycore" to desktop (there are some other messages
but it does not crash).

I don't think APIC...... is the problem

the unsuccessful boot with version 2 bzimage and version 2 tinycore does not get to the green line
that says "Booting tinycore"

[curaga]

@gwalther, I suggest you also use the "debug" code and see if there's anything relevant

[gwalther]

Using "debug" boot code... trying to boot version 2

this is the last the last several messages

RPC: Registered udp transport module
RPC: Registered tcp transport module
IO APIC resources could not  be allocated
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 344 freed
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

some time later get this message

Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 70011540 ns)


did  not notice anything else of note during boot sequence

[lkraemer]

gwalther, now I'm following along.......Glad to have the extra set of eyes, and the help.

I searched today and found crunchbang that was supposed to work on older machines.
I burned the ISO and it boots fine and runs.  I get a message about ACPI and BIOS age being
1999 older than >2000, and it uses the ACPI=force and then boots fine.  I didn't make a
note of the Kernel Version.

I tried ACPI=force  with Tinycore 2.xx and it did not help.

lkraemer

[gwalther]

@ Ikraemer

try boot codes.......debug    initcall_debug

I get the following messages just before the panic

async_waiting @1
async _continuing @ 1 after 11 usec

what do you get?

trying to figure out what this means

g