From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-34smp i686) Description of problem: On a Toshiba Libretto 70CT, the 2.4.18-3 kernel boots up until freeing the extra kernel memory. After this, the execve to /sbin/init returns success, but /sbin/init does not run. Long Version: The Toshiba Libretto 70CT has a 586 with MMX processor and 32MB of memory. It runs vanilla Redhat 6.2 fine. It will not run Redhat 7.0 or Redhat 7.3 (2.4.18-3), so the bug has existed for quite some time. The problem is that, on boot, I see: ...previous stuff... Freeing unused kernel memory: (some number) ...hangs forever here... I tried having the kernel run the shell instead, but that did not work either. I also recompiled /sbin/init to print out a message to stderr first off, but nothing appeared. Putting the disk into another 686 machine runs fine. I recompiled the kernel and started adding printk debugging statements. I found that search_binary_handler() (from fs/exec.c) returns success. At this point it is clear to me that I am not going to get any farther with printk statements. I also tried to make an a.out executable (rather than an ELF), but the ld in Redhat is not compiled to create one, and I was unable to figure out how to configure the recompile of ld to make it do so. If someone could send me an a.out-style executable of some sort, that would be the next obvious test. My info: Brian Sutin I will be out of town from 2002-08-21 to 2002-08-29. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. happens every boot-up 2. 3. Additional info:
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