Re: URGENT : System hands on "Freeing unused kernel memory: "

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> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
>
> So we took the box home and tried to boot it from a bootdisk (generated as we installed the box,
> redhat 7.0). The SAME problem occurs ...
>
> Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed
>
> The system hangs (i've tried 2.2.18 AND 2.4.2-ac20, 2.2.16 is on our bootdisk). I thought
> it could be the swap-partition ... so we inserted an IDE Disk, installed a small system so that
> i was able to mount the SCSI-Disks. So i rebuild the swap-parition with
> mkswap /dev/sda5 and activated it via swapon /dev/sda5 ... worked.
>
> So i tried to boot it again from the SCSI-Disks ... nothing! The same odd failure ...

Boot off the ide disk and fsck the scsi disks. See if that helps

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