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SubjectRe: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 does not boot. 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 + small fix from axboe was fine
Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Eric Valette wrote:
>
>> System starts but hang just before giving hand to init, sometimes I see
>>
>> Mounted devfs on /dev <=== Hangs here
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
>>
>> Sometimes it goes a little bit further but hangs nearly at calling
>> init...
>>
>> Is there something tagged __init that should not be? Or does some of the
>> new SCSI stuff breaks (swap on sda1, ...).
>>
>> Keyboard still gets interrupt (CAPS lock led), but nothing happens. Like
>> if there was a deadlock. No kdbg...
>
>
> initramfs-search-for-init.patch
>
> That patch may be freeing initmem before you get to prepare_namespace()

It looks like this patch initramfs-search-for-init.patch has been
mis-applyed when creating 2.6.5-rc2-mm1. At least the resulting code I
have in my source tree is not what I should get with the patch applied
(as far as I can read patch directly). Will try to apply it by hand...

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