Something interesting for the guru's:
Some days ago I tried to run a 2.2.15 Kernel
on my "Ruffian" UX Mainboard based system and failed.
The kernel hung itself up very early,
after calibrating the delay loop with the message
"Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page"
I then tried a 2.2.16pre7 Kernel and succeeded.
I scanned through the mailinglist-archives and the
web and found that no problems were reported with
2.2.15.
After that I tried to figure out what went wrong
in my case and got a new MILO for "Ruffian" systems
from DEC. (Many thanks to www.alphalinux.org for
the hint to the new MILO and the excellent web site!)
I just tried again to run a 2.2.15 Kernel and taataaa
it works! (YEA!)
Just out of interest:
1. Why does 2.2.16pre7 work even with the old MILO ?
2. How can a MILO make such a difference, (probably
stupid question, but well...) ?
so long
Ingo
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