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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: Maurice Volaski <mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [HANG] Checking root filesystem and then...
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 03:39:36PM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> Running on a Netfinity x340 box (single PIII, ServRAID card and 
> Adaptec 29160LP card, boot disk is ext2 and is attached to the 
> ServRAID card), a stock 2.4.10 kernel gets to the point of "Checking 
> root filesystem" and the system simply stops dead in its tracks.
> 
> It stops at the line initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /" If I 
> remove the "initlog", it still stops. If I remove the "fsck", it 
> stops at the next line (mount -n -o remount, rw /)!
> 
> I have systematically tried a number of different kernels and have 
> discovered that
> 
> 2.4.10-pre5 works
> 2.4.10-pre6 hangs
> 
> 2.4.9-ac7 works
> 2.4.9-ac8 hangs

2.4.9-ac17+ should work again, could you test it please?

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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