I'm using kernel 2.1.125 on my Micronics W6-Li dual PPro board with two PPro
180's. The kernel works great and I've had zero problems with its operation.
However, I've seen some strange behaviour while rebooting. This is after
doing a 'shutdown -r now'. Once I saw it say "Disabling symetric IO mode" and
then it just sat there. It only did that once. Sometimes when it boots the
machine will go through its POST and then just sit there without displaying any
further messages. Most commonly it'll boot off of the floppy (using it to test
the 2.1.xxx series), but when it gets to "Uncompressing Linux... done. Booting
Linux" it will just sit there and not do anything.
Every time a cold boot was necessary; just resetting didn't fix it. Anyone
know why my machine would be acting this way?
I would like to put 2.1.125 onto a production machine I'm going to be
building soon because I've heard others say that this kernel is stable, and I
think that it is also, but I cannot have it screw up when rebooting the machine
because I will be administering it remotely and won't be there to hit the
switch if it gets stuck.
Any help, thoughts, comments or fixes would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
-M@
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