RE: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emanuel Schmid [mailto:emanuel.schmid@grob.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 11:53
> To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults
>
>
> hi
>
> > On my SS20 I compiled a 2.4.18 kernel with SMP support. I discovered
> > that the machine would boot beyond the simple kernel startup only once
> > every 5 to 10 trys.
> >
> > I then tried 2.4.19, then this week-end 2.4.20. Same problem. I used
> > either the kernel-source stable packages or direct source tarballs from
> > kernel.org with the same result.
> >
> > Any well know issue on that?
>
> i know the problem... but nearly nothing more.
>
> only thing i've found out: with memory below about 80MB the system runs
> fine (or i just could not provoke the crash).
> can you test if your ss20 behaves the same?
I have 128-MB. I'll remove half of that and see how it behaves.
It's not an ovious crash though. It just freezes on startup after the kernel
gets comfortable and it goes to mounting volumes and start the rest.
When the system manages to boot completely, I had no other problems for as
long as a day. I know, this is a short time, but I cannot sleep with a SS20,
dual disks, in my bedroom....
Nico
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