Hello Ruediger,
On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ruediger Oertel wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > Hello All, A new addition to the output just before hang .
> >
> > > Linux version 2.2.13-0.9 (root@pappy) (gcc egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
> > > (egcs 1.1.2 release)) #3 Tue Feb 1 15:05:50 PST 2000
> > > Booting os Sable using machine vector Sable from SRM
> > > Command line: root=/dev/sda3 bootdevice=sda2 bootfile=vmlinux.gz
> > Initial ramdisk at: 0xefefefefefefefef (172893013083003244847 bytes)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > t2_init: HBASE was 0x2000
> > > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> > > Calibrating delay loop...
> ah, that makes more sense.
> You are using a kernel with "initial ramdisk support".
> Now, the bootloaders on alpha (aboot and MILO) usually do not support this yet,
> and even worse, these pointers are simply uninitialized and may return bogus
> values as above. Try to boot a kernel without initrd support or, if you are
> using aboot, you could try a patched version which can either load an initial
> ramdisk or otherwise initializes these pointers as zero.
> My currently used patchset is at ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ro/aboot.
>
> But I still don't understand why this should hang at calibrating the delay
> loop...
Well I even tried removing the initrd & friends and the blasted
thing still hangs at that point . I am at a loss here .
I've tried the above with 2.2.13-0.9(redhat), vanilla-2.2.14,
vanilla-2.2.14+pre-15-5, All with the same result . I've even
tried the 'generic' , ... & You name it .
Do you have a 4/275 ? , If so would you mind dropping me the
.config file out of a recent build ? Tia, JimL
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