[parisc-linux] 2.4.18-pa29 problem

[parisc-linux] 2.4.18-pa29 problem

[Jeremy Drake]

I don't know if this is related to my other problems or not, but when 
booting an SMP 2.4.18-pa29 kernel from CVS, the box stops after displaying 
"Freeing Unused Kernel Memory".  The box is still semi-responsive, in that 
stuff sent to the serial  console is echoed back, and the power button 
makes it say "shutting down" but nothing happens beyond that.

I'm going to try a UP version of this, to see if I get the same thing.

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Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.18-pa29 problem

[Jeremy Drake]

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jeremy Drake wrote:

> I don't know if this is related to my other problems or not, but when 
> booting an SMP 2.4.18-pa29 kernel from CVS, the box stops after displaying 
> "Freeing Unused Kernel Memory".  The box is still semi-responsive, in that 
> stuff sent to the serial  console is echoed back, and the power button 
> makes it say "shutting down" but nothing happens beyond that.
> 
> I'm going to try a UP version of this, to see if I get the same thing.
The UP version is fine.  SMP just hates me, I guess :(
> 
> 

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Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.18-pa29 problem

[Thibaut VARENE]

Le mercredi 29 mai 2002, =E0 03:32 , Jeremy Drake a =E9crit :

> I don't know if this is related to my other problems or not, but when
> booting an SMP 2.4.18-pa29 kernel from CVS, the box stops after=20
> displaying
> "Freeing Unused Kernel Memory".  The box is still semi-responsive, in=20=

> that
> stuff sent to the serial  console is echoed back, and the power button
> makes it say "shutting down" but nothing happens beyond that.
>
This is quite weird, because we have such a problem here:

With kernels 2.4.18-pa23 and above, it happens that some times the box=20=

won't reboot after a normal shutdown, or even a crash.
It stops at the same point ("Freeing Unused Kernel Memory"), and we also=20=

have the "shutdown requested" echo when pushing the button, but nothing=20=

happens.

A complete shutdown and reboot won't change a thing.

What is very weird, is that the same boxes boot fine with the original=20=

2.4.9-32 and fsck doesn't show anything bad.
We also had the case of a box that won't reboot with 2.4.18-pa23, but=20
when we tried the day after, it booted fine !
We also discovered that adding a init=3D/bin/sh param to the linux =
kernel=20
did the trick and let the machine boot.

We suspect an INIT problem.

Hope this might help.



Thibaut VARENE
PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/

Re: [parisc-linux] 2.4.18-pa29 problem

[Robert Stanford]

> We also discovered that adding a init=/bin/sh param to the linux kernel 
> did the trick and let the machine boot.
> 
> We suspect an INIT problem.
> 
> Hope this might help.
> 

When we did LTSP for sparc it was based it off the woody binaries, we
had the same problem and yes could also do init=/bin/bash. We ended up
using init from slackware resulting in a slightly bastardised but
working distribution.

Robert Stanford