Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:04:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:04:01 -0400 Received: from 24-148-63-229.na.21stcentury.net ([24.148.63.229]:21090 "HELO wotke.danapple.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:04:00 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.1[89] boot problem In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Aug 2002 01:07:11 CDT." <20020823060716.020F1107D9@wotke.danapple.com> From: "Daniel I. Applebaum" Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:08:05 -0500 Message-Id: <20020827130810.1A04F111F0@wotke.danapple.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1444 Lines: 32 I've been tracking down my booting problem, and while reviewing old email, found that in trying to track down (and never succeeding) a VM problem last fall, I determined that any kernel after 2.4.15-pre2 would not boot on my machine. So, something changed between 2.4.15-pre2 and 2.4.15-pre3 that means linux will not boot. The symptom is that the boot sequence displays "Loading linux-2.4.19..." but never display "Uncompressing". I've enclosed the 2.4.15-pre3 Changelog. Any ideas which of the changes would have affected booting? pre3: - Al Viro: sanity-check user arguments, zero-terminated strings etc. - Urban Widmark: smbfs update (server/client cache coherency etc) - Rik van Riel, Marcelo Tosatti: VM updates - Cort Dougan: PPC updates - Neil Brown: raid1/5 failed drive fixups, NULL ptr checking, md error cleanup - Neil Brown: knfsd fix for 64-bit architectures, and filehandle resolveir - Ken Brownfield: workaround for menuconfig CPU selection glitch - David Miller: sparc64 MM setup fix, arpfilter forward port - Keith Owens: Remove obsolete IPv6 provider based addressing - Jari Ruusu: block_write error case cleanup fix - Jeff Garzik: netdriver update Thanks! Dan. - 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/