From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: <38AEFE72.2E9C7300@tiac.net> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 15:03:39 +0100 To: Patrick Callahan , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: BenH Subject: Re: 2.3.45 on B&W G3 PCI-PCI Bridge scan - Is this a problem in earlier kernels? Message-Id: <20000220150339.012539@192.168.1.10> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, Feb 19, 2000, Patrick Callahan wrote: >Is it possible that this PCI-PCI bridge scan timing problem manifests >itself in earlier kernels on Blue >G3's as intermittent boot failures? Ocasionally when I run in MacOS 8.6 >for a time, and then boot into Linux using the BootX application version >1.2.? the boot gets to the point where it writes out the word booting... >on the console. but no further. > >Is this worth investigating and fixing in the stable kernel if it is >shown to be a problem there? Did you try compiling with xmon enabled in the config ? There's a small buglet in the current devel tree that can break if it's not enabled. Also, On NewWorld machines, yaboot booting should be more reliable than BootX. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/