From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:47:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:47:20 -0400 Received: from draco.macsch.com ([192.73.8.1]:19951 "EHLO draco.macsch.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 23 May 2001 16:47:05 -0400 Message-ID: <3B0C21C6.A78FEDB6@mscsoftware.com> Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 13:47:02 -0700 From: "David N. Lombard" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-8.msc-up i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patric Mrawek CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Boot Problem In-Reply-To: <20010523140356.A38056@punkt.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patric Mrawek wrote: > > Hi, > > sometimes one of my servers doesn't boot correctly. Lilo reads the > kernel-image, but doesn't decompress it. So the system won't > continue booting. > > Looks like: > Loading linux................... > (at this point the machine freezes) Our experience of this has been with suspect hardware. It was our first (pre-release) P4 system, so we puzzled over it for a short while; later testing on other P4 systems showed no such problem. -- David N. Lombard