Re: Linux 2.4.24-pre1: Instant reboot

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Kristofer T. Karas wrote:

> Hi Marcelo, et al,
>
> Just wanted to report an instantaneous reboot problem with 2.4.24-pre1.
>
> I don't even see any printk's to the screen; as soon as LILO is finished
> loading the new kernel, the screen blanks and the BIOS goes through its
> boot sequence again.  Since I seem to be the only one reporting this to
> LKML, I suspect I'll have to back out various patches to try to track
> this down. :-P
>
> I'm using the same .config as in 2.4.23 with new questions left at their
> defaults (e.g. XFS=n, OOM_KILLER=n).  I've had no problems with this
> otherwise rock-stable platform for all varieties of 2.4.x, save for some
> early USB EHCI issues long ago.
>
> At work now, so I don't have a full .config handy, but:
> * Slackware 8.1 based; glibc 2.2.5; gcc 2.95.3
> * Soltek SL-75DRV2 (UP, Athlon XP 1700, VIA KT266A [VT8366A/VT8233])
> * Root = ext3 on IDE partition
> * DevFS, DevPTS, IDE-SCSI=cdrom0, USBStorage, USB EHCI, VFAT
> * RadeonFB, IPTables, Realtek-8139
> Everything else in .config is pretty vanilla (e.g. Linus defaults or
> thereabouts).
>
> Kris
>

What CPU did you compile it for? The reboot stuff looks like
a CPU reset because of a triple fault, i.e., using CMOV when
there isn't any, etc. Try something more generic and see if
it boots.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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