Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4

Gene Heskett
2004-09-27T04:53:26Z

On Sunday 26 September 2004 21:10, Andrew Morton wrote:
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-
>rc2/2.6.9-rc2-mm4/
>
>- ppc64 builds are busted due to breakage in bk-pci.patch
>
>- sparc64 builds are busted too. Also due to pci problems.
>
>- Various updates to various things. In particular, a kswapd
> artifact which could cause too much swapout was fixed.
>
>- I shall be offline for most of this week.
>

The bootup hangs, from dmesg after reboot to 2.6.9-rc2-mm3:

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
-----
2.6.9-rc2-mm4 hangs here, and never gets to the next line
-----
NET: Registered protocol family 16

So I assume something in the next line hangs it. Sysrq-t has no
repsonse, must use the hardware reset button.

Ideas?

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