Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4

Gene Heskett
2004-09-27T07:02:44Z

On Monday 27 September 2004 02:31, Gene Heskett wrote:
>On Monday 27 September 2004 01:13, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net> wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>>Try booting with `acpi=off'
>
>Its already off in the .config, theres nothing there I need.
>
>>Try reverting allow-multiple-inputs-in-alternative_input.patch
>
>Ok, I´ll give that a shot. Thanks.
>
>I also note that the agp, radeon & drm stuff is pretty noisy,
>deprecated this and deprecated that warnings.
>Also, amanda has started, so I´ll not be rebooting till morning to
>test the reverted patch.

Amanda got done before I did, so I can report that reverting that
patch did not effect a fix for the hang noted above.

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