Booting stops at Checking for 'hlt'

WCOEKAER.US.ORACLE.COM (WCOEKAER@us.oracle.com)
29 Aug 98 18:22:15 -0700

Ok, weird problem,

Booting every linux kernel until now, has worked just fine, last version was
.117 (OK) and with the latest vger tree (2.1.119) when booting it stops at
checking hlt.

When I comment out the __asm__ __volatile__("hlt ; hlt ; hlt ;
hlt");
line from include/asm-i386/bugs.h:__initfunc(static void check_hlt(void))
I continue, so clearly the test boot_cpu_data.hlt_works_ok is true. And it
seems to work from there (altho I haven't done extensive testing on it,
except
for a normal boot)

This test has always been true as well, for previous versions.

proc/cpuinfo : (from 2.0.34)

processor : 0
cpu : 586
model : Pentium 75+
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
stepping : 12
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid : yes
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips : 48.64

I am not sure how to go about and debug this baby...

Cheers,

Wim.

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