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- From: johnsonm@lars.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Michael K. Johnson)
- Subject: More info on non-booting .99
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.053435.17175@news.stolaf.edu>
- Sender: news@news.stolaf.edu
- Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN USA
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:34:35 GMT
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- I recently posted that I couldn't get .99 to boot, nohow.
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- I have tried a few more things, and everything has failed...
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- I made a backup of /etc/init and then made /etc/init be a hard link to
- /bin/bash, so that I could be sure that /etc/init was not at fault.
- Still no dice -- the linux_banner is printed, and no more, no disk
- activity, no nuttin.
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- I restored /etc/init and figured that it must be in the do_execve()
- code. I diffed .98.6's exec.c and .99's exec.c and found 3 lines
- difference, checked to see that those lines were called by
- do_execve(), and borrowed the .98.6 exec.c. Still no dice. I have
- restored the new .99 exec.c
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- The only think left that I can think of is the new readahead code that
- Linus wrote. I am not familiar with this code at all, and so would
- ask that Linus and/or someone familiar with this code would look over
- it for any subtle bugs that could be causing me this trouble.
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- As I mentioned before, I have put Linus's two one-line patches in,
- including the initialization one, to no effect.
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- Thanks for any help,
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- michaelkjohnson
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