Re: 2.6.14 on iMac G5
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:19:12PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 23:19 -0300, Eduardo Trápani wrote:
> > >>Has anybody succesfully booted that kernel? I get lots of "format errors" while trying to load modules. And then, at the end it just blocks, it says something like "waiting for /dev/sda to come up" and that's it.
> > >
> > >
> > > Have you built a 64 bits kernel ?
> >
> > I used apt-get form unstable, yes the powerpc-64 flavour. That is the
> > one that gives me the "format errors".
> >
> > Then I built it and it boots alright, but after a couple of minutes it
> > hangs. If I let it there long enough (console, without using X) I get a
> > timeout error on /dev/sda. Nothing works afterwards, not even a ping
> > from another machine.
> >
> > Same thing with the -rc5 Sven posted.
>
> That is strange... looks like you are having an issue with interrupts or
> with the disk. Are you using CONFIG_PREEMPT ? If yes, try disabling it.
None of the debian kernels have PREEMPT enabled, at least on powerpc.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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