Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 2003 15:16:17 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.24-pre1: Instant reboot |
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Kristofer T. Karas wrote:
> Hi Marcelo, et al, > > Just wanted to report an instantaneous reboot problem with 2.4.24-pre1. > > I don't even see any printk's to the screen; as soon as LILO is finished > loading the new kernel, the screen blanks and the BIOS goes through its > boot sequence again. Since I seem to be the only one reporting this to > LKML, I suspect I'll have to back out various patches to try to track > this down. :-P > > I'm using the same .config as in 2.4.23 with new questions left at their > defaults (e.g. XFS=n, OOM_KILLER=n). I've had no problems with this > otherwise rock-stable platform for all varieties of 2.4.x, save for some > early USB EHCI issues long ago. > > At work now, so I don't have a full .config handy, but: > * Slackware 8.1 based; glibc 2.2.5; gcc 2.95.3 > * Soltek SL-75DRV2 (UP, Athlon XP 1700, VIA KT266A [VT8366A/VT8233]) > * Root = ext3 on IDE partition > * DevFS, DevPTS, IDE-SCSI=cdrom0, USBStorage, USB EHCI, VFAT > * RadeonFB, IPTables, Realtek-8139 > Everything else in .config is pretty vanilla (e.g. Linus defaults or > thereabouts). > > Kris >
What CPU did you compile it for? The reboot stuff looks like a CPU reset because of a triple fault, i.e., using CMOV when there isn't any, etc. Try something more generic and see if it boots.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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