Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 44830
Kernel 2.4 does NOT BOOT
Last modified: 2006-02-21 13:48:01 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; digit_062001) Description of problem: Hi, I recently got the RedHat Linux 7.1 professional edition and installed it. The installation went fine. But when I restarted the system, Linux just would not start. i.e. After Lilo, I get a few boot up messages and then it stops with no activity. the last message is always "Starting Kswapd 1.8" and then the macahine just freezes. Even ctrl+alt+del dows not work. The cursor just keeps blinking with no further activity. I reinstalled 7.1 many times but the system would just hang at the point "Starting Kswapd 1.8" HOWEVER, i could use loadlin (using the image of the kernel of RedHat6.2) to load Linux. 7.1 DID START! But none of the moudles ,of course, were loaded. I finally installed 2.2.14-12 and the machine works but not upto the expectations(like no sound etc). I tried most of the pre 2.4 kernels (like 2.2.14-12, 2.2.16, 2.2.17)and they all work. Only the 2.4.x kernels don't start. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Just staring linux 2. 3. Actual Results: Does not boot. The last message displayed is "Starting kswapd v1.8" Expected Results: The login screen Additional info: My systems config might be important to note: Compaq Presario 2262 96MB RAM 10.5 GB HDD of which 5GB is Linux Native Diamond stealth 2000 3D pro card ESS 1869
It would be helpful to see the output of lspci and dmesg of the latest kernel that does actually boot. That way, I get more info about the hardware and hopefully the problem.
Also see bug 39191, which I am experiencing, and bug 39089. I did a capture of the boot messages via the serial console that shows that the problem with bug 39191 is a kswapd failure (there is a huge number of call trace numbers after this so you can't tell just by looking at the monitor).
The following is waht dmesg shows up __________________________________________________________________ Linux version 2.2.14-12 (root@monster.exocore.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sun Apr 30 14:36:09 IST 2000 Detected 233863489 Hz processor. ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 233.47 BogoMIPS Memory: 91292k/94208k available (1048k kernel code, 416k reserved, 1388k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Cyrix M II 3.5x Core/Bus Clock stepping 08 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9d4 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09 SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: ST32111A, ATA DISK drive hdb: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-308B, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: WDC WD84AA, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: ST32111A, 2014MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63 hdc: WDC WD84AA, 8063MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 354.330 MB/sec p5_mmx : 408.813 MB/sec 8regs : 351.282 MB/sec 32regs : 123.063 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (408.813 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hdc: [PTBL] [1092/240/63] hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 < hdc5 hdc6 > autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 204080k swap-space (priority -1) Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 3.01 detected OK (220) ESS chip ES1869 detected scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CDRW/DVD SM-308B Rev: BS02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. lp0: using parport0 (polling). lspci gives the following __________________________________ 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597 [SiS5582] (rev 10) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 01) 00:01.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev d0) 00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 10) 00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598 VGA (rev 68)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39089 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.