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, 8 Aug 2001 19:21:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:21:04 -0400 Received: from femail31.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.254.60.21]:27354 "EHLO femail31.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:20:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3B71C9FF.B2E0979C@didntduck.org> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 19:23:43 -0400 From: Brian Gerst X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test11 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl-Johan Kjellander CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 386 boot problems with 2.4.7 and 2.4.7-ac9 In-Reply-To: <3B706C11.7010100@kjellander.com> 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 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. -- Brian Gerst