Re: alpha kernel hang at boot

["Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Nicolas Joly wrote:

> I cannot boot my PWS500au machine with a recent kernel anymore ... It
> hangs at some point.

  How recent?  I saw a change recently that may fix a powerpc problem and 
there was an indication that it may help mips and alpha.

> This seems to be related to recent kmem/vmem changes ... an old
> 5.99.60 version does show any problem.
>
> Any idea ?

  I tried booting kernels from the 201201312100Z build, and they were able 
to get to starting init.  Then they paniced in sysctl_locate.  It appeared 
to be trying to access 0xfffffe0000000008 - which I think is the start of 
the kernel virtual address space.

Mike

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