From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265729AbUGHBct (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:32:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265732AbUGHBct (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:32:49 -0400 Received: from dragnfire.mtl.istop.com ([66.11.160.179]:24779 "EHLO dsl.commfireservices.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265729AbUGHBcr (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:32:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:35:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: Robert Horton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.7 hangs.. In-Reply-To: <44108A2B-D066-11D8-8BAE-0003933EE6DC@agarithil-nost.com> Message-ID: References: <44108A2B-D066-11D8-8BAE-0003933EE6DC@agarithil-nost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Robert Horton wrote: > I have recently completed building a LFS (linux from scratch) system > which uses the 2.6.7 kernel on a i686 machine. Upon reboot the systems > hangs after the BIOS RAM mapping. Specifically: > > -snip- > 511MB LOWMEM available > On node 0 totalpages: 131056 > DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch: 1 > Normal zone: 126960 pages, LIFO batch: 16 > HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch: 1 > > > and that is as far as it goes unless it takes an inordinate amount of > time to continue past that point. I did leave it for approximately four > minutes and had no further progression. > > I searched the archives and while I did not find anything pertaining > this I did see that the next logical progression deals with DMI and > ACPI so I do not know if it is hanging at the memory portion or the > next portion. Try booting with acpi=off