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SubjectRe: 2.2.x hang on boot
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Kelvin Edwards wrote:

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>
> 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.

How did you configure your 2.2.6 kernel ? Did you take 2.0.36's .config
and did make oldconfig ? If yes, some low level drivers aren't set
automatically like CONFIG_VT and some disk CONFIG_???IDE?? and then
booting freezes after "OK, booting the kernel".
I experienced this myself ...

--
Thomas

> 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.
>
> Kelvin Edwards
> System Administrator
> Jefferson Lab
> kelvin@jlab.org
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