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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: 2.5.3-pre4 panics on boot )-:
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At 13:28 24/01/02, Alexander Viro wrote:
>On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > oops is below...
> >
> > Can't attach .config nor decode oops at the moment as the machine is now
> > dead (I am remote), I can reboot it remotely but LILO doesn't accept my
> > remote commands (even though I send a break signal it doesn't do anything,
> > just sits at prompt and after time out boots into -pre4 and dies - any
> > ideas?). )-:
> >
> > Is there a patch I can apply to fix this panic? Assuming one of the
> > scheduler ones. But which one?
>
>In arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c find
>         global_irq_holder = 0;
>and s/0/NO_PROC_ID/

That worked a treat. Thanks!

Best regards,

         Anton


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