Re: 2.5.56 won't boot (but 2.5.53 will)

[David Brownell]

Given all the flamage about GOTO, I thought maybe someone might
prefer to actually help resolve a problem ... so, I'm resending!

> Symptom:  system hangs during boot, right where it's shown in the
> annotated log below.  On 2.5.56 I also tried after disabling SMP
> and all the local APIC stuff in the build, but it didn't matter.
> These are otherwise the same .config setups, modulo whatever
> magic "make oldconfig" did.
> 
> In case it matters, this is kt333-based with a vt8235 south bridge.
> It's never shown this type of boot problem before.
> 
> Suggestions, or patches?
> 
> - Dave
> 
> 
> Linux version 2.5.53 (root@helium) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat 
> Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #10 SMP Fri Jan 3 11:47:10 PST 2003
> Video mode to be used for restore is f00
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
>  BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> 512MB LOWMEM available.
> found SMP MP-table at 000f50e0
> hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice.
> hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice.
>     
>     right here is where 2.5.56 (and 2.5.54) stops booting:
>     before messages about zone allocations.  Alt-SysRQ-B works.
> 
> On node 0 totalpages: 131072
>   DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
>   Normal zone: 126976 pages, LIFO batch:16
>   HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
>     Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
> OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
> Processor #0 6:6 APIC version 17
> I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
> Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
> Processors: 1
> Building zonelist for node : 0
> Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda9 nmi_watchdog=1
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 1532.634 MHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 3014.65 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 515688k/524288k available (1508k kernel code, 7864k reserved, 
> 725k data, 112k init, 0k highmem)
> 
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