Re: Problems with Linux 2.3.1[1-4] on a Sony VAIO laptop

[Alessandro Suardi]

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 
> On 23-Aug-99 [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> > I've been having problems booting anything Linux 2.3.11 through 2.3.14
> > on my Vaio 505TX laptop.  A 2.3.10 kernel works just fine, but anything
> > later doesn't boot at all.  All I get are the "Uncompressing
> > kernel.... OK, booting the kernel" message, and then nada.
> 
> I get the same symptoms on my Sharp Actius A-100 with 2.3.14.  I only
> discovered it this morning, so I haven't investigated further.  I had
> initially thought it might have something to do with framebffer or APM,
> but that doesn't seem likely from your description.
> 

My Dell Latitude CPi 300XT suffers the same problem with 2.3.14,
 but anything up to and including 2.3.13 is okay.

Before rebuilding the kernel with latest gcc and binutils (2.95.1
 and 2.9.5.0.8) the disk LED would stay lit and I had to power down
 the laptop; after the rebuild I can Alt-SysRq and it seems to be
 stuck looping with only init, kpiod, kflushd and kapmd running
 (perhaps another kernel thread ? I'm unsure right now...)

EIPs show a loop values not only of 0010 but also of 0023, I can be
 more specific if anyone is willing to investigate.

Note, the IDE CD-ROM detection isn't yet reliable if I remove the
 append="hdc=cdrom hdd=none" line in /etc/lilo.conf (so it's still in).

Thanks in advance,

--alessandro   <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>

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