Re: 386 boot problems with 2.4.7 and 2.4.7-ac9

[Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>]

Carl-Johan Kjellander wrote:
> 
> I have an old 386 which ran 2.4.3 just fine. Last night i tried
> to upgrade it but it didnt work at all.
> 
> I compiled a stock 2.4.7, and since I had seen some postings on
> that egcs-2.91.66 didn't compile 2.4.7 I switched to gcc-2.96-85.
> The only thing I added to the kernel was ISAPNP support.
> 
> The 2.4.7 kernel seems to boot fine, no error messages or nothing,
> but it won't start init. The last line is:
> 
>    Freeing unused kernel memory: 52K freed
> 
> And then it just stops. The kernel is still resonsive but init won't
> start. Shift-PageUp still works. SysRQ shows that the EIP almost
> always is on the same spot in schedule. I tried init=/bin/sh but
> the boot stops at the same place every time.
> 
> Then I tried 2.4.7-ac9, same configuration, but that kernel panics.

Are you using math emulation?  If so there was a bug fixed in the
2.4.8-pre kernels.

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						Brian Gerst