2002-08-13 17:22:24

by Scorpion

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Subject: Flush issues in boot phase


Hi fellows,
I'm still trying to boot my dual AMD 1800XP machines (not MP).
I got one more step disabling MP 1.4 support on BIOS setup, but now
(using 2.4.19 kernel) I have a more general question.
The boot phase stop exactly with the message:

Partition check:
hda :

Should I consider that the kernel stop exactly in this point or
should I take in account any buffer problem,if yes shloud I
put a flush in any point, maybe a after printk statments?

Thank you in advance,
Scorpion.

Go Linux, go free!


2002-08-15 22:18:16

by Richard Z

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Subject: Re: Flush issues in boot phase

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:25:19PM -0300, Scorpion wrote:
>
> Hi fellows,
> I'm still trying to boot my dual AMD 1800XP machines (not MP).
> I got one more step disabling MP 1.4 support on BIOS setup, but now
> (using 2.4.19 kernel) I have a more general question.
> The boot phase stop exactly with the message:
>
> Partition check:
> hda:
>
> Should I consider that the kernel stop exactly in this point

it stops exactly between this printk and the next (unreached) one.

See fs/partitions, probably read_dev_sector hangs so put printk's
around that.

Richard

2002-08-16 08:31:57

by Denis Vlasenko

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Subject: Re: Flush issues in boot phase

On 15 August 2002 08:13, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:25:19PM -0300, Scorpion wrote:
> > Hi fellows,
> > I'm still trying to boot my dual AMD 1800XP machines (not MP).
> > I got one more step disabling MP 1.4 support on BIOS setup, but now
> > (using 2.4.19 kernel) I have a more general question.
> > The boot phase stop exactly with the message:
> >
> > Partition check:
> > hda:
> >
> > Should I consider that the kernel stop exactly in this point
>
> it stops exactly between this printk and the next (unreached) one.
>
> See fs/partitions, probably read_dev_sector hangs so put printk's
> around that.

Does it works with one CPU taken out?
--
vda