Andrew,

I have compiled a completely clean, unpatched (I mean except of course 
rc2-mm2) and I can still not manage to finish booting. However, this 
time, I get a little bit further AND system seems to hang exactly at the 
same place each time (which was not the case with rc2-mm1). In fact I 
managed to have the same behavior after removing the initramfs patches 
from rc2-mm1 and fixing some other things using bk snapshots diffs (SCSI 
st driver).

It hangs when executing :
/etc/init.d/console-screen.sh after displaying:

Setting up general console font..

Attached is a shell trace of a working session on
2.6.5-rc1-mm2. It basically does (twice wonder why!) a loop of :


/usr/bin/consolechars --tty=/dev/vc/[X] -f lat0-16

I also traced the set of system calls /usr/bin/consolechars does via ptrace.

Of course, the same shell script, same binaries and same settings works 
for 2.6.5-rc1-mm2


Does this rings a bell or suggest a culprit patche?

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