Re: 2.3.43: won't boot on one computer

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2000 - 16:18:44 EST


In article <38A43F2C.539CD97E@colorfullife.com>,
Manfred Spraul <manfreds@colorfullife.com> wrote:
>2.3.43 won't boot on my SMP computer, the same kernel [removable
>harddisk] boots on my AMD K6.
>
>It reboots immediately after uncompressing.
>2.3.43-pre5 did boot.
>
>Any ideas why?

Probably the TLB flush buglet - it hits some machines and not others.

Try the current 2.3.44 pre-patch (up to pre-7 right now - I'm churning
them out at a rapid pace to make sure that people who do network driver
fixes for the new interfaces can always sync up to my current tree).

                Linus

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