Re: [FIXED] Re: Total machine lockup w/ current kernels whileinstalling from CD

[Andrew Morton]

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Monday, 15. May 2006 22:45, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It's odd that we'll run initrds in a !SYSTEM_RUNNING state.
> 
> True, especially because we run initramfs in SYSTEM_RUNNING state.
> 
> > It's not an oops - it's sort-of a warning.  Did the system actually
> > continue to run and boot up OK?
> 
> No, it was a lockup and the system just hung at the point forever, so the 
> lockup detection was right.

This is odd.  Your machine hangs if cond_resched() is a no-op.  This should
not happen.

What does `grep PREEMPT .config' say?

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