Re: Kernel 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 hangs for a while on boot

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"Francisco Figueiredo Jr." <fxjrlists@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
> I'm having little hangs while booting with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc1, rc2
>  and rc3.
> 
>  It is strange that 2.6.12-rc1 booted ok without hangs.
> 
>  I saw a post of Alan Cox on rc-1 release notes:
> 
>  "Old ISA/VESA systems sometimes put tertiary IDE controllers at addresses
>      0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0 or 0x160.  Linux thus probes these addresses on x86
>      systems.  Unfortunately some PCI systems now use these addresses for other
>      purposes which leads to users seeing minute plus hangs during boot or even
>      crashes."
> 
>  I thought this could be my problem, but it still hangs on boot.
> 
>  Hangs appears just before mounting filesystems message and before configuring
>  system to use udev.

Are these hangs temporary or permanent?  If they are temporary (ie: the
kernel recovers OK) then we should call them "stalls".  Because a "hang" is
considered to be a permanent state.

Either way, we need to know where the kernel is stuck.  Adding
`initcall_debug' to your kernel boot command may help.

And when the hang/stall occurs, hit the ALT-SSQRQ-P and ALT-SYSRQ-T key
combinations and send us the resulting traces.

Thanks.