Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Mar 1998 01:27:35 -0500 (EST) | From | David C Niemi <> | Subject | UP Boot on hang in 2.1.90-pre2 and 2.1.90-pre3 |
| |
I have an otherwise very stable machine which hangs midway through the boot process on the last two prepatches. The last thing it prints is the Serial driver and ttyS00/01 announcements. I do have parallel printer and APM support turned on in these kernels, though there is no problem in 2.1.89 or 2.1.90-pre1.
Kernel is compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3 under Red Hat 5.0 with SMP not set and CFLAGS_NSR not used (as for the working 2.1.86, 2.1.88, 2.1.89, 2.1.90-pre1 and many previous kernels). I compiled the 2.1.90-pre2/3 kernels at least 3 separate times with slightly different configurations, all with the same result.
From the 2.1.89 boot sequence, with the same configuration as the pre3 failure: ... Starting kswapd v 1.5 Serial driver version 4.24 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A **** This is as far as it gets in 2.1.90-pre[23] **** lp: driver loaded but no devices found APM BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.4) Entry f000:6a1c cseg16 f000 dseg fd4f cseg len e6ff, cseg16 len 0, dseg len 22a Connection version 1.2 AC on line, battery status unknown, battery life unknown battery flag 0x80, battery life unknown Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 Non-volatile memory driver v1.0 Sound...
The system is a Pentium 166/83 with 32 MB EDO RAM and a 430HX chipset on a 1-year-old ASUS motherboard. It has an ESS1688 ISA PnP sound card, SVEC 21140 and PCI NE2000 clone Ethernet, and an STB S3 ViRGE video card. Yes, it's a bit overclocked, but it runs cool and its stability is extremely well tested under many different kernels.
Were there any changes to APM or parallel port stuff between the pre1 and pre2 patches, or weird compiler directives or CPU initialization? And is anyone else seeing UP hangs of this kernel? If not I'll try to pin this down a bit further.
--- David C Niemi --- niemi@tux.org --- Reston, Virginia, USA --- "Well the lush separation unfolds you - and the products of wealth push you along on the bow wave of their spiritless undying selves."
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
| |