From: ORAKEL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Framstag) Subject: .99pl9 boot hangs! Bug? Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 23:57:12 GMT
I'm not able to boot with kernel .99pl9 after upgrading from pl6.
After consulting some local Linux gurus they suggested me to post my
problem here as a bug report.
My configuration is:
486/50 ISA, 8 MB RAM, Western Digital IDE HD, SMC 16 Elite Ethernetcard,
ET4000 VGA, no printer.
I'm using SLS 1.01 and libc.so.4.3.3
I compiled linux.99pl9 and installed it with lilo (config-file see below)
At boot-time I get:
Lilo loading linux...
Console: colour EGA+ 100x40, 8 virtual consoles
Serial driver version 3.94 with AUTO_IRQ enabled
Warning: auto IRQ detection for tty1 failed using default IRQ.
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
lp_init: lp1 exists (0), using polling driver
then it hangs completely.
I get the same result with pl8. pl6 just works fine. No problem with this
release. I haven't change the configuration.
This is the output from booting with pl6:
Lilo loading linux...
Console: colour EGA+ 100x40, 8 virtual consoles
Serial driver version 3.91 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
lp_init: lp1 exists (0)
Memory: 7520k/8448k available (324k kernel code, 384k reserved, 220k data)
(...)
with pl9 the line "Serial driver version 3.94 with AUTO_IRQ enabled"
shouldn't appear, because I selected NO Auto IRQ in make config.
So I added it serial.c the line:
#undef CONFIG_AUTO_IRQ
A reboot brings now:
Lilo loading linux...
Console: colour EGA+ 100x40, 8 virtual consoles
Serial driver version 3.94 with no serial options enabled
Warning: auto IRQ detection for tty1 failed using default IRQ.
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
lp_init: lp1 exists (0), using polling driver
dead again.
Is it really a kernel bug, or have I missed something trivial?!
/usr/src/linux# cat .config
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#
#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD = CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD
CONFIG_TCPIP = CONFIG_TCPIP
CONFIG_M486 = CONFIG_M486
#
# SCSI support
#
#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom)
#
#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
#
# Filesystems
#
CONFIG_MINIX_FS = CONFIG_MINIX_FS
CONFIG_EXT_FS = CONFIG_EXT_FS
CONFIG_EXT2_FS = CONFIG_EXT2_FS
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS = CONFIG_MSDOS_FS
CONFIG_PROC_FS = CONFIG_PROC_FS
CONFIG_NFS_FS = CONFIG_NFS_FS
#
# Various character device drivers..
#
CONFIG_KBD_META = CONFIG_KBD_META
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