Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups

2001-01-21 Thread Donald J . Maddox
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:29:22PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:05:20AM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > > > It may have absolutely nothing to do with either of these cases, but > > I found out the hard way recently that booting with no device.hints > > in /boot will

Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups

2001-01-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:05:20AM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > It may have absolutely nothing to do with either of these cases, but > I found out the hard way recently that booting with no device.hints > in /boot will exhibit symptoms that appear identical to this. Is it > possible that so

Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups

2001-01-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jason Evans writes: : Several of us have started experiencing problems with kernels that won't : boot. The symptom is hard to miss: the machine locks up at the spinner : just before printing the copyright message at the beginning of the boot : sequence. I've seen t

Fixed (was Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups)

2001-01-21 Thread jasone
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:32:38AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: > We don't know why this is happening, and at this point the primary > suspicion is that this problem has been lurking for quite some time, and > we've recently committed a combination of changes that causes the problem > to exhibit itse

Re: HEADS UP: Strange booting lockups

2001-01-21 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 02:32:38AM -0800, Jason Evans wrote: > Several of us have started experiencing problems with kernels that won't > boot. The symptom is hard to miss: the machine locks up at the spinner > just before printing the copyright message at the beginning of the boot > sequence.