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FS#6139 - Kernel 2.6.19.1 freezes
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Arch Linux
Opened by Moo-Crumpus (Moo-Crumpus) - Tuesday, 02 January 2007, 21:57 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 02 January 2007, 23:17 GMT
Opened by Moo-Crumpus (Moo-Crumpus) - Tuesday, 02 January 2007, 21:57 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 02 January 2007, 23:17 GMT
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DetailsSince Kernel 2.6.19.1 is released, everytime I install it it locks my system up during boot. Grub starts the process of expanding the kernel26.img, and the computer freezes. I updated the system step by step, from a fresh 0.7.2 install until up-to-date packages, keeping a kernel update in the back hand. The final step that was left in the end was the kernel's update. Updating locks the boot process. I guess it is pata related. As the system hangs in a moment where nothing can be logged at all, it's a mess.
The computer runs three device adapters for hd: - scsi (adaptec, aic7xxx) my boot environment is stored here - sata (sil on the mainboard, promise as additional adaptor). Let me add that I changed nothing on my machine. Every setup, like mkinitcpio or grub, runs fine until I install the latest kernel. Furthermore, the same happens when I try to boot one of the alpha 0.8.0 archlinux iso files. They use the same kernel version, and run their own setup. Therefore, I guess, it is a kernel problem. |
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But never got a freeze.
What kernel messages do you see on your screen before freeze?
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is extfs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1a1a60]
initrd / kernel26.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x1ff7c000, 0x73ce 6 bytes]
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This is all that happens. I found out that the system freeze happens whenever I have harddiscs connected to a promise tx4 300 adaptor. To my surprise, the system hangs trying to boot a windows installer, too, when a disk is connected. The only operating systems that boot are linux systems with kernel prior to 2.6.19 - like old archlinux installer cds or ubuntu. I never noticed that as I only run linux, and had all my sata disks connected to the promise adaptor.
The difference if a disk is connected to the promise adaptor is, that if one is connected, the adaptors bios is enabled and behaves as ide master device.
what module causes the crash?
i have no time atm for building the new .20rc series, but it would be worth a try to check this new kernel series if it fixes the issue.
browsing kernel git might help if the module is known.
thanks
Unfortunately no proof like logfiles etc ...