Recent 2.3.x kernels hang on startup

Jeff Millar (jeff@wa1hco.mv.com)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:30:52 -0500


This question has been asked before...search engines find it...but no
answers.

Lately, kernels in the range 2.3.25 - 2.3.35 hang on startup or start
strangly
while 2.2.13 works fine.

The symptoms include

hanging after the "starting init" message, but alt/sysrq keys work
a stream of "VM killing process modprobe" messages
one "VM kill process modprobe message" and then hang

The later kernels hang hard, but ~2.3.31 put out the stream of messages

My machine is a p3-266 uniprocessor, 64MB, ide disks, RH 6.0 with updates
to RH 6.1 rpm's. Options in .config include initrd.

ideas for what to try???

jeff

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