Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:03:39 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Joerg Reuter <> | Subject | Re: Boot troubles with kernel version > 1.3.85 |
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On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, William C Doughty III wrote:
> Anybody have any reports of kernel versions > 85 having > problems with the boot up sequence? > > My machine seems to go into never-never land during the > partition check just before root is mounted. I get the > partition check message: > > Partition check: > hda: > > the sysem just hangs. The kernel seems to have a problem > with the first bread() in msdos_partition(), it's going in > but not returning. I've tried several different configs, but > nothing seems to have worked. All recent kernels up to > 1.3.85 have at least booted.
Same for me... Kernel 1.3.90, gcc 2.7.0. Above behaviour on my AMD 5x86-P75, SCSI-only, NE2000 network card. On my AMD 486DX2/66 (IDE only) it prints the partitions and locks _then_. The following is configured:
/* * Loadable module support */ #define CONFIG_MODULES 1 #define CONFIG_KERNELD 1
/* * General setup */ #define CONFIG_NET 1 #define CONFIG_PCI 1 #define CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE 1 #define CONFIG_SYSVIPC 1 #define CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT 1 #define CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF 1 #define CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF 1 #define CONFIG_M486 1
/* * Floppy, IDE, and other block devices */ #define CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD 1 #define CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE 1
/* * Networking options */ #define CONFIG_FIREWALL 1 #define CONFIG_NET_ALIAS 1 #define CONFIG_INET 1 #define CONFIG_IP_FORWARD 1 #define CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL 1 #define CONFIG_IP_ALIAS 1
/* * (it is safe to leave these untouched) */ #define CONFIG_IP_NOSR 1 #define CONFIG_SKB_LARGE 1
/* * */ #define CONFIG_AX25 1 #define CONFIG_BPQETHER 1 #define CONFIG_NETROM 1 #define CONFIG_BRIDGE 1
/* * SCSI support */ #define CONFIG_SCSI 1
/* * SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom) */ #define CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD 1 #define CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR 1
/* * SCSI low-level drivers */ #define CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx 1 #define CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT 1
/* * Network device support */ #define CONFIG_NETDEVICES 1 #define CONFIG_SLIP 1 #define CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED 1 #define CONFIG_SLIP_SMART 1
/* * CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules. */ #define CONFIG_NET_ISA 1 #define CONFIG_NE2000 1
/* * Filesystems */ #define CONFIG_EXT2_FS 1 #define CONFIG_FAT_FS 1 #define CONFIG_MSDOS_FS 1 #define CONFIG_PROC_FS 1 #define CONFIG_NFS_FS 1 #define CONFIG_ISO9660_FS 1
/* * Character devices */ #define CONFIG_SERIAL 1 #define CONFIG_PRINTER 1 #define CONFIG_UMISC 1
/* * Set IObase/IRQ/DMA for ftape in ./drivers/char/ftape/Makefile */ #define CONFIG_WATCHDOG 1 #define CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG 1 #define CONFIG_RTC 1
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