On Wed Aug 17, 2005 at 18:35:23 +0200, Christoph Mueller wrote:
Hello,
I tried to run the demo-CD on my laptop that has a Via C3 CPU.
The following error occured:
Assertion failed: '!(*pte & INTEL_PTE_VALID)' in .../boot/ia32/boot_cpu.cc:450 in function (null) at 00300539
Some more info about the processor:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Ezra stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 798.007 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1592.52
Is there a way to run DROPS on Via C3 or should i reinstall the energy-intensive Intel Pentium 3?
That was a bug in Fiasco which we fixed some time ago. The C3 has no 4MB pages and the bootup code did not reserve enough space to map this region with 4K pages only. The Demo CD has not been updated since then, i.e. still contains the issue. But I have updated the floppy disk image, maybe that's helpful in some way.
Adam