Re: ZFx86 support broken?

From: Andrey Panin
Date: Tue Jun 14 2005 - 00:42:35 EST


On 161, 06 10, 2005 at 11:45:27AM -0700, 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?

Are you sure that userspace on livecd is not compiled for 586+ CPU ?

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