On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 23:46 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > The 2.6.29-rc kernels hang during boot on my PowerMac G3 (Beige). > The last messages I see on the console are > > Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=8192 > irq: Found primary Apple PIC /pci/mac-io for 64 irqs > irq: System has 64 possible interrupts > > and then it hangs until I reboot it. Unfortunately I don't have a serial cable > compatible with the G3's serial port so I can't set up a serial console. > > Eventually I narrowed the cause down to "powerpc/pci: Reserve legacy regions > on PCI" > (commit c1f343028d35ba4e88cd4a3c44e0d8b8a84264ee) in 2.6.28-git12. Reverting > that > from 2.6.29-rc2 results in a kernel that boots ok and works reliably. > > The problem seems system specific as both my G5 and my G4 had no problems at > all > with 2.6.29-rc1.
Thanks, I'll try to narrow it down, but it will take a week or so as I'm away attending LCA. I think I have one of these Beige G3's in the office somewhere.... Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
