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SubjectRe: 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y

* 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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