>>>>> "reinhard" == Reinhard Katzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
reinhard> Hi Juan! Hi could you check if Mandrake kernel 2.4.17 (either linus or Mandrake) boots for you? it took a while to found that damned bug here, but now I am able to boot all my machines with/whithout devfs (with plain 2.4.17 they just hang during boot as yours). Later, Juan. >> >> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). >> >> Mounted devfs on /dev. >> >> Red Hat nash version 3.1.6-mdk starting. >> >> Mounting /proc filesystem. >> >> Creating root device. >> >> Mounting root filesystem with flags noatime >> >> kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds >> >> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. >> >> pivotroot:pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed:22 >> >> Freeing unused kernel memory:708k freed. >> >> Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel. >> guillaume> Booh :-(. >> >> No idea what is happening here, It take a lot of time to get 2.4.17 >> out due to the bug that it didn't boot :( Could you told us what is >> your hardware? reinhard> Yes, I also include a part of my .config (the CPU part). I have a reinhard> Sony Vaio PCG-FX-301 Laptop / a AMD K62-based desktop. I concentrate reinhard> on the laptop though it does not work with both computers. The reinhard> Laptop has an 800 Mhz Mobile Duron Prozessor (powertweak segfaults with reinhard> this processor, but that's another story...) with 256 MB RAM and reinhard> 10 Gig IDE 2.5" hard disk and 8xDVD-Drive. More info from 2.4.16 reinhard> Kernel output (dmesg, incomplete): reinhard> Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. reinhard> Found and enabled local APIC! reinhard> Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 vga=791 reinhard> Initializing CPU#0 reinhard> Detected 800.048 MHz processor. reinhard> Memory: 255284k/262080k available (971k kernel code, 6408k reserved, 352k data, reinhard> 704k init, 0k highmem) reinhard> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 reinhard> Trying to stomp on Athlon bug... reinhard> Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent reinhard> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 reinhard> VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 reinhard> hda: FUJITSU MHM2100AT, ATA DISK drive reinhard> hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive reinhard> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd1125800, 08:00:46:1e:51:6a, IRQ 10 reinhard> It has a VIA VT82C686 chipset and also has USB, I-Link (IEEE1394, Unknown reinhard> Device 8020), Sound AC97/Audio onboard, ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP graphic reinhard> onboard. Host bridge: Unknown device 0305, PCI Bridge: Unknown device b115. reinhard> Part of my kernel config: reinhard> CONFIG_X86=y reinhard> CONFIG_ISA=y reinhard> # CONFIG_SBUS is not set reinhard> CONFIG_UID16=y reinhard> # reinhard> # Processor type and features reinhard> # reinhard> CONFIG_MK7=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_XADD=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y reinhard> CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 reinhard> CONFIG_X86_TSC=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_PGE=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y reinhard> CONFIG_MICROCODE=m reinhard> CONFIG_X86_MSR=m reinhard> CONFIG_X86_CPUID=m reinhard> CONFIG_E820_PROC=y reinhard> CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y reinhard> CONFIG_MTRR=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y reinhard> CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y reinhard> # reinhard> # General setup reinhard> # reinhard> CONFIG_NET=y reinhard> CONFIG_PCI=y reinhard> # CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set reinhard> # CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set reinhard> CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y reinhard> CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y reinhard> CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y reinhard> CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y reinhard> CONFIG_EISA=y reinhard> # CONFIG_MCA is not set reinhard> CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y reinhard> The only thing I can update is the pivot_root command from util-linux, reinhard> is this necessary ? reinhard> With best regards, reinhard> Reinhard Katzmann reinhard> -- reinhard> Software-Engineer, Developer for Embedded Devices reinhard> Project: HyperPen Tablet USB Driver for Linux reinhard> GnuPG Public Key available on request -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy
