Re: Recent 2.3.x kernels hang on startup

Alan Cox (alan@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk)
Fri, 31 Dec 1999 15:06:10 +0000


> The symptoms include
> hanging after the "starting init" message, but alt/sysrq keys work
> a stream of "VM killing process modprobe" messages
> one "VM kill process modprobe message" and then hang
>
> The later kernels hang hard, but ~2.3.31 put out the stream of messages

Do you have ELF binary support actually compiled into the kernel. If you have
it as a module and have an ELF module loader that might explain it

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