Re: SS20 2.4 SMP, irregular boot freezes and swapon segfaults

[Emanuel Schmid <emanuel.schmid@grob.org>]

hi

> On my SS20 I compiled a 2.4.18 kernel with SMP support. I discovered
> that the machine would boot beyond the simple kernel startup only once
> every 5 to 10 trys.
> 
> I then tried 2.4.19, then this week-end 2.4.20. Same problem. I used
> either the kernel-source stable packages or direct source tarballs from
> kernel.org with the same result.
> 
> Any well know issue on that?

i know the problem... but nearly nothing more.

only thing i've found out: with memory below about 80MB the system runs
fine (or i just could not provoke the crash).
can you test if your ss20 behaves the same?

thanks
emanuel