2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[Alexander Koch]

Hiya.

I am experiencing problems getting certain 2.5.60 and
2.5.61 and also 2.5.62 to boot. One 2.5.60 is working,
the others are just doing something as I only see the
Uncompressing... and then nothing is happening at all
except my hard disc doing something which is not booting,
I feel. I fail to remember what the difference was between
the two versions of 2.5.60 (one running, the other is not).

Any ideas/hints on what this is?

Thanks,
Alexander

Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:19:32AM +0100, Alexander Koch wrote:
> I am experiencing problems getting certain 2.5.60 and
> 2.5.61 and also 2.5.62 to boot. One 2.5.60 is working,
> the others are just doing something as I only see the
> Uncompressing... and then nothing is happening at all
> except my hard disc doing something which is not booting,
> I feel. I fail to remember what the difference was between
> the two versions of 2.5.60 (one running, the other is not).
> Any ideas/hints on what this is?

Do you have ACPI in your .config? Various ppl have been having
issues resolved when ACPI's deconfigured lately. Breaking out an
early printk patch of some flavor should probably help get some
boot logs out so you can debug if you care to do so.


-- wli

Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[Meino Christian Cramer]

From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:32:21 -0800
Message-ID: <20030219073221.GR29983@holomorphy.com>

Hi,

 I have the sam eproblem here, but ACPI is definetly not configured...
 Any idea else ?

 Thank you for any help in advance ! :O)


 Kind regards,
 Meino 

wli> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:19:32AM +0100, Alexander Koch wrote:
wli> > I am experiencing problems getting certain 2.5.60 and
wli> > 2.5.61 and also 2.5.62 to boot. One 2.5.60 is working,
wli> > the others are just doing something as I only see the
wli> > Uncompressing... and then nothing is happening at all
wli> > except my hard disc doing something which is not booting,
wli> > I feel. I fail to remember what the difference was between
wli> > the two versions of 2.5.60 (one running, the other is not).
wli> > Any ideas/hints on what this is?
wli> 
wli> Do you have ACPI in your .config? Various ppl have been having
wli> issues resolved when ACPI's deconfigured lately. Breaking out an
wli> early printk patch of some flavor should probably help get some
wli> boot logs out so you can debug if you care to do so.
wli> 
wli> 
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Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:59:05AM +0100, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
>  I have the sam eproblem here, but ACPI is definetly not configured...
>  Any idea else ?
>  Thank you for any help in advance ! :O)

Try plopping down any of the more recent early_printk() patches and
posting some bootlogs, then.


-- wli

Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[Duncan Sands]

This is becoming a FAQ!  Did you enable the console in your .config?

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y

Most likely you chose to compile the input system as a module, which
caused the console options to be autohorribly deselected.  Just say 'y'
for the input subsystem, at which point the console options will reappear,
letting you select them.

I hope this helps,

Duncan.

On Wednesday 19 February 2003 09:59, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
> Subject: Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing
> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:32:21 -0800
> Message-ID: <20030219073221.GR29983@holomorphy.com>
>
> Hi,
>
>  I have the sam eproblem here, but ACPI is definetly not configured...
>  Any idea else ?
>
>  Thank you for any help in advance ! :O)
>
>
>  Kind regards,
>  Meino
>
> wli> On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 08:19:32AM +0100, Alexander Koch wrote:
> wli> > I am experiencing problems getting certain 2.5.60 and
> wli> > 2.5.61 and also 2.5.62 to boot. One 2.5.60 is working,
> wli> > the others are just doing something as I only see the
> wli> > Uncompressing... and then nothing is happening at all
> wli> > except my hard disc doing something which is not booting,
> wli> > I feel. I fail to remember what the difference was between
> wli> > the two versions of 2.5.60 (one running, the other is not).
> wli> > Any ideas/hints on what this is?
> wli>
> wli> Do you have ACPI in your .config? Various ppl have been having
> wli> issues resolved when ACPI's deconfigured lately. Breaking out an
> wli> early printk patch of some flavor should probably help get some
> wli> boot logs out so you can debug if you care to do so.
> wli>
> wli>
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Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:52:47AM +0100, Duncan Sands wrote:
> This is becoming a FAQ!  Did you enable the console in your .config?
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> Most likely you chose to compile the input system as a module, which
> caused the console options to be autohorribly deselected.  Just say 'y'
> for the input subsystem, at which point the console options will reappear,
> letting you select them.
> I hope this helps,
> Duncan.

If that's really it there's a chuckle or two to be had.


-- wli

Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[Meino Christian Cramer]

From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 10:52:47 +0100
Message-ID: <200302191052.47663.baldrick@wanadoo.fr>

Hi,

 yes, indeed, this was the problem!!! (by the way: HURRAY, IT BOOTS!)

 It seems that loading an "old" config file from the 2.4.*-series
 of linux kernels will WIPE OUT that config items since they are not 
 written back to disk anymore when saving kernel configuartions....

 Another thing is that make menuconfig fails to write back
 configurations as alternate files into directories owned by root
 and set drwxr-xr-x....but it is able to write into the . directory,
 even if it is set with drwxr-xr-x also...
 
 But this is only a sideeffect.

 Keep Hacking!
 Meino
 


> This is becoming a FAQ!  Did you enable the console in your .config?
> 
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> 
> Most likely you chose to compile the input system as a module, which
> caused the console options to be autohorribly deselected.  Just say 'y'
> for the input subsystem, at which point the console options will reappear,
> letting you select them.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 
> Duncan.
> 

Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[Alex Riesen]

Meino Christian Cramer, Wed, Feb 19, 2003 13:19:09 +0100:
>  Another thing is that make menuconfig fails to write back
>  configurations as alternate files into directories owned by root
>  and set drwxr-xr-x....but it is able to write into the . directory,
>  even if it is set with drwxr-xr-x also...

is the "." also owned by root?

Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[Meino Christian Cramer]

From: Alex Riesen <alexander.riesen@synopsys.COM>
Subject: Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:31:38 +0100
Message-ID: <20030219123138.GQ5239@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com>

Hi Alexander !

 The settings are as follows:
 /usr/src/.
 drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root          296 Feb 18 20:22 .
 drwxr-sr-x   32 root     root         1176 Jan 10 07:21 ..

 /usr/src/linux-2.5.62/.
 drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           72 Feb 16 18:01 .
 drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root          296 Feb 18 20:22 ..

 /usr/src/ksetup/.    (this is were I kept my "alternate configurations")
 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         3488 Feb 19 12:59 .
 drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root          296 Feb 18 20:22 ..

 But everything works fine if
 /usr/src/ksetup/.    
 drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         3488 Feb 19 12:59 .
 drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root          296 Feb 18 20:22 ..

 Everythings happens on the same filesystem.

 And "I am":
 uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

  Hopefully this helps!
  Keep hacking!
   Meino

alexander.riesen> Meino Christian Cramer, Wed, Feb 19, 2003 13:19:09 +0100:
alexander.riesen> >  Another thing is that make menuconfig fails to write back
alexander.riesen> >  configurations as alternate files into directories owned by root
alexander.riesen> >  and set drwxr-xr-x....but it is able to write into the . directory,
alexander.riesen> >  even if it is set with drwxr-xr-x also...
alexander.riesen> 
alexander.riesen> is the "." also owned by root?
alexander.riesen> 
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Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[Peter Chubb]

>>>>> "William" == William Lee Irwin, <William> writes:

William> Hi, I have the sam eproblem here, but ACPI is definetly not
William> configured...  Any idea else ?


I see this regularly if I've forgotten to configure in the input layer
or any consoles.  At least one console device has to be in-kernel
otherwise I see the hang mentioned.

--
Dr Peter Chubb				    peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au
You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same.

Re: 2.5.62 fails to boot, Uncompressing... and then nothing

[Floris Kraak]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:52:47AM +0100, Duncan Sands wrote:
> This is becoming a FAQ!  Did you enable the console in your .config?
> 
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> 
[snip]
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 

Hi, I'd like to pipe in with another report of 2.5.62 not booting.
I _do_ have these lines in my .config and 2.4.19 boots easily while
2.5.62 does not. In fact, neither does 2.5.61.

2.5.59 (with a virtually identical .config) boots fine, but when I
reboot 2.4.19 suddenly doesn't boot (just once, though). If I turn the
machine off and back on that problem goes away. I am not sure if it
is related.

I am not using ACPI. I am using APM. The system is a Dell Inspiron
8200 with a 1.4 Ghz Mobile P4. The bootloader is lilo. Any other
information I'd be glad to give, but debugging is hard because the
kernel doesn't even get to the stage where it prints out it's own
version number.

Regards,
Floris Kraak
-- 
 "If you continue using Windows your system may become unstable."
	-- Windows 95 BSOD