Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jul 1999 08:21:21 -0400 | From | Kelvin Edwards <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.x hang on boot |
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Khimenko Victor wrote:
> In <199907082114.RAA22525@silas.cebaf.gov> Kelvin Edwards (kelvin@jlab.org) wrote: > > > I have a quad Pentium III xeon machine that I cannot get to > > boot using RedHat 5.2 and a compiled kernel > 2.0.36. When > > it tries to boot the 2.2.6 (for example) kernel, it gets to > > the "OK, booting the kernel" point and locks up. I must do a > > manual reset at this point. The system is running fine with > > the default 2.0.36 kernel installed, but I would like to move > > to the 2.2.6 kernel to implement RAID-0 and SMP. > > Looks like you have bad version of LiLo or something. Try some other loader > to be sure (loadlin?)... >
In an effort to verify this, I have installed a new version of LILO. In addition, compiling a 2.0.36 kernel and rebooting dies at a later place in the boot process (I believe this is a SCSI driver problem). In essence, it doesn't seem to be a LILO issue, but instead an issue of starting the kernel.
> > > Current (2.0.36) configuration is > > > Kernel modules 2.1.85 > > Gnu C 2.7.2.3 > > Binutils 2.9.1.0.15 > > Linux C Library 2.0.7 > > Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.0.7 > > Linux C++ Library 2.8.0 > > Procps 1.2.9 > > Mount 2.8a > > Net-tools 1.46 > > Kbd 0.96 > > Sh-utils 1.16 > > Modules Loaded nfs autofs eepro100 appletalk ipx ncr53c8xx > > > The machine has 1GB of memory (I use the append function of lilo to > > tell the kernel that it has something smaller -- 512M, or 960M) and > > 3 SCSI disks on the Symbios 53C896 bus. > > > I have used both the sym53c8xx driver and the ncr53c8xx driver in the > > kernel and have yet to get either to boot. Any suggestions on what > > how to compile the kernel to get it to load would be much appreciated. > > Since it hangs much earlier in boot process then any SCSI driver can be > activated it's not a problem here...
I suspected as much. But how does the kernel get loaded and started without accessing the drive through the SCSI driver ?
Kelvin Edwards kelvin@jlab.org
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