Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.20 on a 4 MB Laptop - Kernel bug? | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:21:56 +0100 (BST) |
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> > On Thursday 10 April 2003 04:53, Nuno Silva wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Hermann Himmelbauer wrote: > > > Well - anyway, the kernel boots but right stops after: > > > INIT: Entering runlevel:3 > > > > > > The next line is: > > > INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error > > > INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > > > ... > > > > > > That's it. > > > > Maybe you striped too much and didn't include *any* console type > > (serial, vga or framebuffer)? :) > > Well - by chance we found another old Laptop, an IBM Thinkpad 350 (the old was > model 340) and found a RAM extension, so we have no 36MB RAM. > > But - guess what: The error still persists! > > I am quite clueless - maybe it has something to do with the IDE subsystem? We > put a 4GB 2.5'' HD in this old Laptop, but the harddisk is correctly > recognized by Linux (also Partition check), grub is also working and it Linux > also mounts the partition. > > Is there any way to get more information out of the kernel?
What happens if you with with init set to be a shell? E.G. init=/bin/bash
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