Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261322AbUCUVpg (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:45:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261358AbUCUVpg (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:45:36 -0500 Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr ([213.228.0.44]:47311 "EHLO postfix3-1.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261322AbUCUVpe (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 16:45:34 -0500 Message-ID: <405E0CFB.8090003@free.fr> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:45:31 +0100 From: Eric Valette Reply-To: eric.valette@free.fr Organization: HOME User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040116 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 does not boot. 2.6.5-rc1-mm2 + small fix from axboe was fine References: <405DFA02.8090504@free.fr> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1423 Lines: 43 Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004, Eric Valette wrote: > >> System starts but hang just before giving hand to init, sometimes I see >> >> Mounted devfs on /dev <=== Hangs here >> Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed >> >> Sometimes it goes a little bit further but hangs nearly at calling >> init... >> >> Is there something tagged __init that should not be? Or does some of the >> new SCSI stuff breaks (swap on sda1, ...). >> >> Keyboard still gets interrupt (CAPS lock led), but nothing happens. Like >> if there was a deadlock. No kdbg... > > > initramfs-search-for-init.patch > > That patch may be freeing initmem before you get to prepare_namespace() It looks like this patch initramfs-search-for-init.patch has been mis-applyed when creating 2.6.5-rc2-mm1. At least the resulting code I have in my source tree is not what I should get with the patch applied (as far as I can read patch directly). Will try to apply it by hand... -- __ / ` Eric Valette /-- __ o _. 6 rue Paul Le Flem (___, / (_(_(__ 35740 Pace Tel: +33 (0)2 99 85 26 76 Fax: +33 (0)2 99 85 26 76 E-mail: eric.valette@free.fr - 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/