Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 does not boot. 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 + small fix from axboe was fine

Eric Valette
2004-03-21T22:39:14Z

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Eric Valette wrote:
>
>> System starts but hang just before giving hand to init, sometimes I see
>>
>> Mounted devfs on /dev <=== Hangs here
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
>>
>> Sometimes it goes a little bit further but hangs nearly at calling
>> init...
>>
>> Is there something tagged __init that should not be? Or does some of the
>> new SCSI stuff breaks (swap on sda1, ...).
>>
>> Keyboard still gets interrupt (CAPS lock led), but nothing happens. Like
>> if there was a deadlock. No kdbg...
>
>
> How about the following patch?

OK this time, I used the correct original file, applied your patch. But
it does not help. This time it freeze immediately after :
Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed.

Thanks anyway for the suggestion and sorry for the mistake on using the
wrong version of init/main.c (after partially reverse applying the
possible incorrect patch).