Re: 2.5.69-mm4 fails to boot

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Tue, 13 May 2003 15:27:13 -0700

Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> 2.5.69-mm4 is failing to boot. It completes init_rootfs() in
> mnt_init() but does not complete init_mount_tree(). Call me dumb, but
> nothing obvious jumps out at me, I don't see any diff(1) from -mm3, and
> I don't really have time to actively debug it. I can indeed build and
> try kernels.

Could be a device driver or IO scheduler problem. You may find that it's
stuck waiting for a disk read to complete.

Try using a different IO scheduler?

Does sysrq-T work?

What device driver does an ML570 use?

Please share your .config.
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