Hi Linas, I found it hard way. You are correct. I am just loosing the console, and all the programs are executing fine. I could put a printk in execve and see all the programs executing (printk's work fine).
I am using a PowerPC based system with my own kernel and initrd (not RedHat system). Can you please elaborate on what exactly you are suggesting me to do. Are you trying to copy /dev/<files> from build machine to the ramdisk? I am confused. Further, I could not find /dev/hv* files in any of the systems. What are they for? You also mentioned about tweaking initrd and udev. Appreciate some help with this console loosing. Thanks in advance for your help. - Siva -----Original Message----- From: Linas Vepstas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 9:52 AM To: Siva Prasad Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: hangs after "Freeing unused kernel memory" On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 04:00:09PM -0800, Siva Prasad wrote: > Hi, > > This sounds like a familiar problem, but could not get answers in posts > that came up in google search. > > My system hangs after printing the message "Freeing unused kernel > memory". It should execute init after that, but not sure what exactly is > happening. Appreciate if some one can throw few ideas to try out. It might not be a hang, it might be simply that you loose the console. If this is a redhat system, and you didn't tweak initrd and udev just right, this can happen. Try doing this: mount --bind / /mnt cp -a /dev/null /mnt/dev cp -a /dev/console /mnt/dev cp -a /dev/hv* /mnt/dev umount /mnt > Seems it is actually hanging when it makes the call " > run_init_process(ramdisk_execute_command)" in init/main.c Then again, your initrd might be corrupted. --linas _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
