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- Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!amdahl!garyf
- From: garyf@uts.amdahl.com (Gary Faulkner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: More 0.99 boot problems (even after fixes)
- Summary: very early hang on 0.99 boot
- Keywords: 0.99, boot, hang, fixes
- Message-ID: <2c.t03Kac4Y200@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 15:00:19 GMT
- References: <78369@hydra.gatech.EDU> <dpn2.208.724469868@po.CWRU.Edu> <dpn2.209.724487553@po.CWRU.Edu>
- Followup-To: comp.os.linux
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
- Lines: 35
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- Hello all
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- I have been trying to get 0.99 to boot on my 486 tonight, with no
- luck. It's dying in a very strange (to me) place...
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- The system comes up and appears to sense all of the devices, until
- it gets to the call to move_to_user_mode() in init/main.c. When
- this call is made, the system just hangs. I can't even
- ctl-alt-del reboot. I have to reset the machine.
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- I'm not very 80x86 assembler literate, so I'm not sure what
- move_to_user_mode() is trying to do. Is it 'supposed' to return to
- main? If so, it is not. I put a printk() before and after it, and
- the one before prints, but nothing thereafter.
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- My system is a 486 w/ 8Meg, IDE drives, no-SCSI (tried with SCSI
- configured in and out...no change), no ethernet (but have TCP in my
- 0.98-5 kernel w/ no problems...and sock_init() appears to work, just
- complains about no ethernet card).
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- I'd really like to get .99 up...and tested out on my machine before
- the holidays.
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- Does anyone have any pointers on where to proceed from here?
-
- Thanks in advance!!
- --
- Gary Faulkner -- My views are no more Amdahl's than Amdahl's views are mine.
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