Re: ZFx86 support broken?

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Andre wrote:

> I am trying to boot LFS6.0.1 livecd which has 2.6.8.1, but the kernel hangs
> at:
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 456k freed
> 
> My system is a pc/104 board based on ZFx86 with 64M ram
> I also found this posting:
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2004-03/5939.html
> Looking at the console output, the cpu gets recognized as 486, whereas
> 2.4.22 detects the cpu as Cyrix Cx486DX4
> 
> Looking at the kernel source, it seems to get stuck after the call to
> free_initmem and when I tried to specify init=/bin/sh it still got stuck at
> the same place so I figured it doesn't even get to the run_init_process
> calls in ..../init/main.c. Could the call to unlock_kernel get stuck?

It looks like it may be having trouble with userspace, try confirming that 
it is indeed mounting root and doing run_init_process.

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