Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:24:49 -0700 | From | Mitchell Blank Jr <> | Subject | Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List |
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tytso@mit.edu wrote: > 4. Boot Time Failures [...] > * IBM Thinkpad 390 won't boot since 2.3.11 (See Decklin Foster for > more info)
I _highly_ suspect that this is not a 2.4 bug but is instead user error. I've seen it several times.
On all kernel versions prior to 2.3.11 if you compiled with the CPU set to a newer model then you had (for instance, of you selected "Pentium Pro" and you actually had a 486) you would get a kernel that worked fine albiet not optimally. On kernels 2.3.11 you will have an unbootable kernel.
Decklin - please try to reproduce this with CONFIG_M386. Also you might try looking in /proc/cpuinfo and make sure that laptop has the CPU you think it has. The reason I know which kernel version this problem appeared in is because I spent an entire evening chasing this same "kernel bug" a couple months ago. Turned out the machine I could have _sworn_ was a Celeron was a K6 :-)
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