Re: [2.4] lockup on boot with 2.4.26

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Sun Jul 04 2004 - 19:59:11 EST


On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:15:52AM +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have tried to update my gateway's kernel to 2.4.26 (Been running
> happily on 2.4.17, but a bit _old_, so finally decided this weekend
> to try and update it). At boot though it only gets to:
>
> --
> Uncompressing kernel... booting linux...
> --
>
> and then locks hard (the capslock and scroll lock leds lids)
>
> Its an old P3 450 on an Asus P2B (BX440 chipset). .config is pretty
> much the same as for the 2.4.17 kernel.
>
> I did have grsecurity initially applied, but I tried on an vanilla
> kernel as well (besides some netfiler POM patches, but they are all
> modules). I also tried to disable acpi.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. .config attached.

Hi Martin,

I do not know the answer for your problem but I'll try to help.

Can you do a binary search and find out which v2.4 kernel stops working?

You can start with 2.4.21, see if that works, if so, try 2.4.23, etc?

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