This just happened to me on the second boot after applying David Miller's
ISS patches (I had been running 2.1.27 before then). The boot messages
stopped after listing the hard drives.
Here are the messages from a successful boot:
Mar 3 01:05:51 topside syslogd 1.3-0: restart.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg
started.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Cannot find map file.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual
console (max 63)
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Got console
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory
structure at 0xc00fc880
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory
entry at 0xfcd60
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10
entry at 0xfcd90
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Probing PCI hardware.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 79.67
BogoMIPS
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Memory: 63168k/65536k available (680k
kernel code, 384k reserved, 1304k data)
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Swansea University Computer Society
NET3.038 for Linux 2.1
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.15 for Linux
NET3.038.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP
for NET3.037
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using
exception 16 error reporting.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Linux version 2.1.27 (root@ppp7.csudh.EDU)
(gcc
version 2.7.2.1) #1 Mon Mar 3 00:12:49 PST 1997
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Serial driver version 4.22 with no serial
options enabled
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: hda: ST51270A, ATA DISK drive
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, ATA DISK drive
[This is the point where it hung.]
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: hda: ST51270A, 1223MB w/128kB Cache, LBA,
CHS=621/64/63
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, 1222MB w/83kB
Cache, LBA, CHS=2484/16/63
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: scsi : detected total.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel
allocation)
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: TCP compression code copyright 1989
Regents of the University of California
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code
copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: Partition check:
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: hda:Started kswapd v 1.21
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: hda1 hda2
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: hdc: [PTBL] [621/64/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3
hdc4
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
Mar 3 01:05:54 topside kernel: lo UP fl=0000004b pa=0100007F/000000FF
brd=FFFFFF7F dst=00000000
Here's the configuration I'm using:
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m
CONFIG_M486=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_DES=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_IDEA=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542=m
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
CONFIG_NE2000=m
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SB=y
CONFIG_YM3812=y
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=y
Hardware:
ASUS PVI-486SP3 with UMC 8669F
AMD 5x86
64 MB RAM
2 IDE hard disks running off the UMC 8669F
CL-DG5428R 2 MB VESA video card
Realtek 8029 Ethernet card
Rockwell v.34 internal modem
AHA 1542CF
SB32 PnP
Genius GM-6 serial mouse
101-key keyboard
3.5" floppy
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Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>