Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:31:10 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Both machines here (a desktop, P3/600 on an intel SR440BX motherboard, > > running Red Hat 6.9.5; kernel compiled with kgcc (egcs-1.1.2); a notebook, > > Toshiba Satellite pro 4280 XDVD or some such, mobile P3/500, running Red > > Hat 6.2) hang after "OK, now booting the kernel". > > Yep I've been chasing some other reports and duplicated them here. It blows up > in checksetup - We inherited a 2.4 bug where having zero setup or init > functions in the setup/init segment causes a jump to fishkill
Hmm..
How do you get zero setup functions? There are things that are quite unconditional, like the "root=" one just before "checksetup()". Same goes for initcalls.
(Or does 2.2.x copy the setup stuff without copying any of the regular _users_ of those setup functions?).
Linus
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