Re: Linux-2.4.20 on a 4 MB Laptop - Kernel bug?

Hermann Himmelbauer
2003-04-30T09:43:00Z

On Thursday 10 April 2003 04:53, Nuno Silva wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> > Well - anyway, the kernel boots but right stops after:
> > INIT: Entering runlevel:3
> >
> > The next line is:
> > INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error
> > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> > ...
> >
> > That's it.
>
> Maybe you striped too much and didn't include *any* console type
> (serial, vga or framebuffer)? :)

Well - by chance we found another old Laptop, an IBM Thinkpad 350 (the old was
model 340) and found a RAM extension, so we have no 36MB RAM.

But - guess what: The error still persists!

I am quite clueless - maybe it has something to do with the IDE subsystem? We
put a 4GB 2.5'' HD in this old Laptop, but the harddisk is correctly
recognized by Linux (also Partition check), grub is also working and it Linux
also mounts the partition.

Is there any way to get more information out of the kernel?

Best Regards,
Hermann

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