Re: 2.5.3-pre4 panics on boot )-:

[Alexander Viro]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> oops is below...
> 
> Can't attach .config nor decode oops at the moment as the machine is now 
> dead (I am remote), I can reboot it remotely but LILO doesn't accept my 
> remote commands (even though I send a break signal it doesn't do anything, 
> just sits at prompt and after time out boots into -pre4 and dies - any 
> ideas?). )-:
> 
> Is there a patch I can apply to fix this panic? Assuming one of the 
> scheduler ones. But which one?

In arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c find
	global_irq_holder = 0;
and s/0/NO_PROC_ID/