Re: kernel hangs after trying to free unused memory.
Jon> i am running a potato version of debian. I have just compiled a new 2.2.17
Jon> kernel with kernel-package and make-kpkg. i executed the following commands
Jon> as per the README file.
Jon> make config
Jon> make-kpkg clean
Jon> make-kpkg --revision=cutom.1 kernel_image
Jon> then
Jon> dpkg -i kernel_image.deb (or something) using the defaults.
Jon> rebooting starts and then hangs here...
Jon> Partition check:
Jon> hda: hda1 hda2
Jon> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Jon> Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
Jon> then it just hangs with a solid cursor.
A _lot_ of things happen at that point. It is just before init is
executed (during a successful boot, the next message would be "INIT
v.2.78 booting" or something like that).
I got hung at this point when my SCSI BIOS setup was wrong for my
disk. But obviously you don't have SCSI so that doesn't apply to you.
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