Re: Problems booting 2.4.6 ac release

Aaron Longfield (aaronl@adalive.com)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:18:57 -0400 (EDT)


Chris,

Did you happen to compile IrDA into the kernel? This has been broken for
at least with 2.4.5. there are fixes in the -ac patches that have not been
applied to the mainstream kernel yet. If you compile IrDA as a module, or
use -acXX, the kernel will be able to proceed to exec'ing INIT.

-Aaron Longfield

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Chris Massam wrote:

%Hello,
%
%I'm having problems booting linux on my IBM Thinkpad A20 laptop.
%
%Having got the machine working nicely with Debian "woody" I decided to
%upgrade to 2.4.5 - which caused no end of problems, as it would fail to boot
%correctly.
%
%It would freeze at:
%
%Freeing unused memory 242k ...
%
%So, at the point I upgraded to -ac23 which worked fine.
%So then 2.4.6 comes along, and I have exactly the same problem.
%
%Are the 'ac' release not incorportated into future releases?
%
%Thanks for any help in advance.
%
%Chris

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