On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Peter Milleson wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Finally have my bootp and tftp server working in order for my used Indy 175
> to boot off the network. The system finally downloaded the kernel image (the
> kernel from hardhat-sgi-5.1) and the system kernel panics with the following
> error:
>
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
> scsi0: reset. page fault from irq handler: 0000
> $0 : {lots of numbers}
> $4 : " "
> $8 : " "
> $12: " "
> $16: " "
> $29: " "
> $24: " "
> $28: " "
> epc : 880fa97c
> Status: 1004fc82
> Cause : 000000008
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> Could there be a problem with the onboard SCSI controller? I don't know of
> any way to test the SCSI subsystem without a bootable SGI cdrom. I am going
> to try and download a different (newer?) kernel and try again and see what
> happens.
This is very likely a problem with the SCSI Code or your hardware.
But I would assume that the kernel is just plain too old.
Please try a newer kernel (you can find one on ftp://source.rfc822.org/).
HTH, Klaus
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