Hi,
Today I installed SuSE 7.2 (with kernel 2.4.4-4GB included with SuSE).
After the installation I decided to compile my own kernel like I always
do.

First I tried 2.4.9, afterwards 2.4.9-ac7 and at last 2.4.6, all with
the same result: Either the boot process simply stops somewhere in the
middle or there is a kernel panic. So I took 2.4.9-ac7 and removed
everything "Experimental" from it, including IDE-DMA, AGP etc. This time
I could boot to the prompt but when X came up, it crashed and triggered
a kernel Ooops. This time I could save the dmesg. BTW, 2.2.19 also works
properly.

My System is a AMD Thunderbird with a Via82C686 Chipset, 256MB Ram
(tested with memtestx86, no errors), a DPT PM1554U2 controller (but same
behavior without compiling this into the kernel) and Reiserfs on my root
partition (hda2), so no exotic hardware.

The kernel Oops looks like this:
------------------- snip -----------------
is_leaf: item location seems wrong: *OLD*[7727 7728 0x0 SD], item_len
2059, item_location 0, free_space(entry_count) 57024
vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 8980. Fsck?
is_leaf: item location seems wrong: *OLD*[7727 7728 0x0 SD], item_len
2059, item_location 0, free_space(entry_count) 57024
vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 8980. Fsck?
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
VM: refill_inactive, wrong page on list.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0d696910
 printing eip:
c0125f0f
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c0125f0f>]
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: c025a360   ebx: c105a004   ecx: c1476000   edx: 0d696910
esi: c105a020   edi: 00000011   ebp: 00000000   esp: c1477fc8
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=c1477000)
Stack: c1476000 c01e2f27 c1476239 0008e000 c01e2f27 c012632d 00000006
00010f00
       cffe7fb8 00000000 c01054c8 00000000 00000078 c0219fd4
Call Trace: [<c012632d>] [<c01054c8>]
 
Code: 89 02 ff 0d 58 a3 25 c0 e9 45 01 00 00 8d 74 26 00 8b 43 40
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I simply attach the whole "dmesg" to this mail - perhaps this makes
things clearer...

Does anyone have a clue what to do? Should I try 2.4.4?
Please contact me if you need any further information.

		Best Regards,
		Hermann

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