From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:51:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:50:51 -0400 Received: from [213.96.124.18] ([213.96.124.18]:18670 "HELO dardhal") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 19:50:40 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 01:52:52 +0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Luis_Domingo_L=F3pez?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel 2.4.* hangs just after uncompressing image Message-ID: <20010916015251.A9478@dardhal.mired.net> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010915232738.00a90ba0@mail.tcsitalia.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010915232738.00a90ba0@mail.tcsitalia.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday, 15 September 2001, at 23:39:57 +0200, Johnny Mnemonic wrote: > > Greetings, > I'm currently running kernel 2.2.19 fine, and I'd need to upgrade to 2.4 > shortly, but after a careful configuration when i try to boot it hangs just > after the message "Ok, booting kernel .." > There has been a similar problem here with an old Pentium 166 over an equally old mobo and RAM. Some kernels tend to stop the normal boot process just after displaying "Loading linux........." on the screen. Sometimes it arrives to the point where even the final "....done." is printed, but the boot process either halts or reboots. There is no deterministic pattern for such behavior: for example, 2.2.17 always boots OK. 2.2.18 sometimes fails to boot, rebooting itself when fails. 2.2.19 nearly always fails to boot, but in this case it halts instead of rebooting. The same 2.2.19 kernel on a floppy boots a much higher percentage of times. With kernels 2.4.x, all I've tried show a similar behavior to that experienced with 2.2.19. With 2.4.9 even triying to boot from a kernel on a floppy is hard, because this also fails aprox. 75% of times. But using 2.4.9-ac10 those booting problems disappear completely: I get 100% success booting from both floppy and the hard drive. All kernels compiled with the same options turned on, except framebuffer only present on 2.4.x kernels. The RAM seems OK (memtest86), as well as the HD (no problems so far), although I still think is a (crappy or old) hardware issue. But it happened to be interesting to see that 2.4.9-ac10 booted fine where vanilla 2.4.9 failed. -- José Luis Domingo López Linux Registered User #189436 Debian GNU/Linux Potato (P166 64 MB RAM) jdomingo EN internautas PUNTO org => ¿ Spam ? Atente a las consecuencias jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk