Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:29:12 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y |
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* Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com> wrote:
> Hello Peter and Ingo, > > Under linux-2.6.29-rc5, and I believe all earlier 2.6.29-rc > releases, CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y causes my system to hang at boot when > booting from lilo-22.8. Linux-2.6.28 does not have this hang. > Disabling LOCK_STAT or booting from grub avoids the hang. These are > sufficient workarounds for me, but I document it here in case anyone > else is seeing something similar or wants to take a deeper look at it.
hm, so if booting from LILO you see a hang, while when booting with GRUB it works fine?
Could it be LILO messing up the kernel image loading somehow? LOCK_STAT might just be the thing that brings the kernel over a specific size.
Ingo
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