Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:20:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:20:03 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:17427 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:19:46 -0500 Subject: Re: URGENT : System hands on "Freeing unused kernel memory: " To: puckwork@madz.net (Thomas Foerster) Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:21:45 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010327064904Z130600-406+4294@vger.kernel.org> from "Thomas Foerster" at Mar 27, 2001 08:48:08 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed > > So we took the box home and tried to boot it from a bootdisk (generated as we installed the box, > redhat 7.0). The SAME problem occurs ... > > Freeing unused kernel memory: xxk freed > > The system hangs (i've tried 2.2.18 AND 2.4.2-ac20, 2.2.16 is on our bootdisk). I thought > it could be the swap-partition ... so we inserted an IDE Disk, installed a small system so that > i was able to mount the SCSI-Disks. So i rebuild the swap-parition with > mkswap /dev/sda5 and activated it via swapon /dev/sda5 ... worked. > > So i tried to boot it again from the SCSI-Disks ... nothing! The same odd failure ... Boot off the ide disk and fsck the scsi disks. See if that helps - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/