"Francisco Figueiredo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having little hangs while booting with kernels 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc1, rc2 > and rc3. > > It is strange that 2.6.12-rc1 booted ok without hangs. > > I saw a post of Alan Cox on rc-1 release notes: > > "Old ISA/VESA systems sometimes put tertiary IDE controllers at addresses > 0x1e8, 0x168, 0x1e0 or 0x160. Linux thus probes these addresses on x86 > systems. Unfortunately some PCI systems now use these addresses for > other > purposes which leads to users seeing minute plus hangs during boot or > even > crashes." > > I thought this could be my problem, but it still hangs on boot. > > Hangs appears just before mounting filesystems message and before configuring > system to use udev.
Are these hangs temporary or permanent? If they are temporary (ie: the kernel recovers OK) then we should call them "stalls". Because a "hang" is considered to be a permanent state. Either way, we need to know where the kernel is stuck. Adding `initcall_debug' to your kernel boot command may help. And when the hang/stall occurs, hit the ALT-SSQRQ-P and ALT-SYSRQ-T key combinations and send us the resulting traces. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
