2.6.30-rc8 worked fine ... unless this is a known problem, I suppose I can begin bisecting.
The boot log of the hang is: Please wait, loading kernel... Elf64 kernel loaded... Loading ramdisk... ramdisk loaded at 02500000, size: 8280 Kbytes OF stdout device is: /ht/i...@8/ser...@2f8 Preparing to boot Linux version 2.6.30 (j...@claymoor) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Debian 4.3.3-10) ) #1 SMP Mon Jun 22 09:59:35 CDT 2009 command line: root=/dev/sda3 ro console=ttyS0,19200n1 memory layout at init: alloc_bottom : 0000000002d16000 alloc_top : 0000000030000000 alloc_top_hi : 0000000080000000 rmo_top : 0000000030000000 ram_top : 0000000080000000 instantiating rtas at 0x000000002fff5000... done boot cpu hw idx 0000000000000000 starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000001... done starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000002... done starting cpu hw idx 0000000000000003... done copying OF device tree... Building dt strings... Building dt structure... Device tree strings 0x0000000003117000 -> 0x0000000003117640 Device tree struct 0x0000000003118000 -> 0x000000000311b000 Calling quiesce... returning from prom_init So it looks like some type of early boot failure or handoff in head_64 James _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev