Boot Failure

Boot Failure

[Rye, Gene R.]

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After loading RHEL5 onto a system and then configuring the security in
accordance with the NSA Guide, I cannot boot the system.  I am getting
the error :

 

     Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) not within permissible range

 

             Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block (0,0)

 

I believe there may be a problem with the /boot/grub/grub.conf file.  I
can boot the system with a Fedora livecd but am denied access to modify
the file.  Any words of help?

Thanks

Gene Rye

 


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Re: Boot Failure

[Peter Briggs]

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I believe that after you boot from the live cd, you can remount the boot 
partition with something like

mount -o rw,remount <device for boot partition>

such as

mount -o rw,remount /dev/sda1

if the boot /boot were on /dev/sda1

and you can just type

mount

to find out where /boot is currently mounted

Good Luck

PS -
   The   "memory for crash kernel ..."   thing is, I think, normal

On 7/26/11 8:58 AM, Rye, Gene R. wrote:
>
> After loading RHEL5 onto a system and then configuring the security in 
> accordance with the NSA Guide, I cannot boot the system.  I am getting 
> the error :
>
>      Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) not within permissible range
>
>              Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
> on unknown-block (0,0)
>
> I believe there may be a problem with the /boot/grub/grub.conf file.  
> I can boot the system with a Fedora livecd but am denied access to 
> modify the file.  Any words of help?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gene Rye
>

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Re: Boot Failure

[Steve Grubb]

On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 09:24:26 AM Peter Briggs wrote:
> I believe that after you boot from the live cd, you can remount the boot
> partition with something like
> 
> mount -o rw,remount <device for boot partition>
> 
> such as
> 
> mount -o rw,remount /dev/sda1
> 
> if the boot /boot were on /dev/sda1
> 
> and you can just type
> 
> mount
> 
> to find out where /boot is currently mounted

You can also use the rescue image and it makes everything accessible so that you can 
fix things.

-Steve

RE: Boot failure

[Rune Torgersen]

Found my own error...
Had compiled in support for Virtual Teminals...

> EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k init
> Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
> NIP: C00DDBA0 LR: C00DDCEC SP: C04B7DC0 REGS: c04b7d10 TRAP:
> 0301    Not
> tainted
>
> MSR: 00009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
> DAR: 00000004, DSISR: 20000000
> TASK = cffeb9c0[1] 'init' Last syscall: 5
> GPR00: 00000000 C04B7DC0 CFFEB9C0 CFD63400 00000001 00000000 CFD63558
> CFFFD370
> GPR08: 00000008 00000000 00000000 CFD63400 48000842
> Call trace: [c00ddcec]  [c00e1b08]  [c00cfee4]  [c0052040]  [c00477d4]
> [c0047668]  [c0047b2c]  [c000779c]
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>  <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..
>

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Re: Boot failure

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <DCEAAC0833DD314AB0B58112AD99B93B06DAA7@ismail.innsys.innovsys.com> you wrote:
>
> Can any body gove me some insight inot the following error?
>
> When I try to boot a kernel based on 2.6.3, it crashes when starting

Try using a 2.4.x (= working) kernel.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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provide a test load.

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Boot failure

[Rune Torgersen]

Hi
Can any body gove me some insight inot the following error?

When I try to boot a kernel based on 2.6.3, it crashes when starting
init:

Root is on /dev/hda3, and everything on thet filesystem is newly
recompiled (linuxfromscratch) using gcc-3.3.2

Same thing happens when I try the ELDK2.x and ELDK 3.0 filesystems with
a 2.6 kernel

This is on a MPC8266 cpu

I have tried the dynamic version (against glibc-2.3.3) an a static
version.
(the dump is from the static version)

EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k init
Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
NIP: C00DDBA0 LR: C00DDCEC SP: C04B7DC0 REGS: c04b7d10 TRAP: 0301    Not
tainted

MSR: 00009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
DAR: 00000004, DSISR: 20000000
TASK = cffeb9c0[1] 'init' Last syscall: 5
GPR00: 00000000 C04B7DC0 CFFEB9C0 CFD63400 00000001 00000000 CFD63558
CFFFD370
GPR08: 00000008 00000000 00000000 CFD63400 48000842
Call trace: [c00ddcec]  [c00e1b08]  [c00cfee4]  [c0052040]  [c00477d4]
[c0047668]  [c0047b2c]  [c000779c]
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
 <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..

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Re: Boot Failure

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <2295.996976445@ocs3.ocs-net>
By author:    Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2001 15:26:04 -0400, 
> LeRoy Cressy <lcressy@telocity.com> wrote:
> >Starting with kernel 2.4.5 the system refused to boot with the following
> >messages:
> >2.4.7:
> >
> >CPU #0: Machine check exception 0x 106B60 (type 0x      9).
> 
> In arch/i386/kernel/bluesmoke.c, function intel_mcheck_init, find
>         if(c->x86 == 5)
>         {
> and insert 'return;' after '{'.  The P5 machine check handler does not
> work for all systems, reason unknown.
> 

What's the CPU, specifically?

	-hpa
-- 
<hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt	<amsp@zytor.com>

Re: Boot Failure

[Keith Owens]

On Sat, 04 Aug 2001 15:26:04 -0400, 
LeRoy Cressy <lcressy@telocity.com> wrote:
>Starting with kernel 2.4.5 the system refused to boot with the following
>messages:
>2.4.7:
>
>CPU #0: Machine check exception 0x 106B60 (type 0x      9).

In arch/i386/kernel/bluesmoke.c, function intel_mcheck_init, find
        if(c->x86 == 5)
        {
and insert 'return;' after '{'.  The P5 machine check handler does not
work for all systems, reason unknown.

Boot Failure

[LeRoy Cressy]

System check Failure

Starting with kernel 2.4.5 the system refused to boot with the following
messages:

2.4.7:

CPU #0: Machine check exception 0x 106B60 (type 0x      9).

2.4.6:
CPU #0: Machine Check Exception 0x 10[AC]??0 (type 0x      9).

2.4.5:
interrupt handler not syncing [<%81x>]
killing interrupt handler

ver_linux output 

Gnu C                  2.95.4
Gnu make               3.79.1
binutils               2.11.90.0.7
util-linux             
util-linux             Note: /usr/bin/fdformat is obsolete and is no
longer available.
util-linux             Please use /usr/bin/superformat instead (make
sure you have the 
util-linux             fdutils package installed first).  Also, there
had been some
util-linux             major changes from version 4.x.  Please refer to
the documentation.
util-linux             
mount                  2.11b
modutils               2.4.6
e2fsprogs              1.22
Linux C Library        2.2.3
Dynamic linker (ldd)   2.2.3
Procps                 2.0.7
Net-tools              1.60
Console-tools          0.2.3
Sh-utils               2.0.11
Modules Loaded 

The machine that is being built is an old AST Advantage with a pentium
75 chip.
I realize that this is an ``Ancient'' machine, but I'm using it for a
dmz machine behind my firewall.  

I used the same .config file for each instance of the kernel compile
with the following:

gzip -cd patch-2.4.?.gz | patch -p0
cd linux
make mrproper
cp ../AST.config .config
make xconfig
make dep
make bzImage

copy kernel to the old box via scp
copy System.map to the old box
reboot the old box and see what happens

Here is the .config file:

#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
# CONFIG_SBUS is not set
CONFIG_UID16=y

#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y

#
# Loadable module support
#
# CONFIG_MODULES is not set

#
# Processor type and features
#
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
# CONFIG_M486 is not set
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
CONFIG_M586TSC=y
# CONFIG_M586MMX is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII is not set
# CONFIG_MPENTIUM4 is not set
# CONFIG_MK6 is not set
# CONFIG_MK7 is not set
# CONFIG_MCRUSOE is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIPC6 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_MWINCHIP3D is not set
# CONFIG_MCYRIXIII is not set
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
# CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK is not set
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486=y
CONFIG_X86_ALIGNMENT_16=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
# CONFIG_TOSHIBA is not set
# CONFIG_MICROCODE is not set
# CONFIG_X86_MSR is not set
# CONFIG_X86_CPUID is not set
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G is not set
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
# CONFIG_MTRR is not set
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
# CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not set

#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_VISWS is not set
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_EISA=y
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not set
# CONFIG_PCMCIA is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
# CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT is not set
# CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not set
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
# CONFIG_PM is not set
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
# CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

#
# Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
#
# CONFIG_MTD is not set

#
# Parallel port support
#
# CONFIG_PARPORT is not set

#
# Plug and Play configuration
#
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_ISAPNP=y

#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DAC960 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set

#
# Multi-device support (RAID and LVM)
#
CONFIG_MD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=y

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y
# CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set
# CONFIG_FILTER is not set
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS is not set
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_LARGE_TABLES is not set
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPGRE is not set
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set
# CONFIG_INET_ECN is not set
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
# CONFIG_IPV6 is not set
# CONFIG_KHTTPD is not set
# CONFIG_ATM is not set

#
#  
#
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_DECNET is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_X25 is not set
# CONFIG_LAPB is not set
# CONFIG_LLC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_DIVERT is not set
# CONFIG_ECONET is not set
# CONFIG_WAN_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FASTROUTE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL is not set

#
# QoS and/or fair queueing
#
# CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set

#
# Telephony Support
#
# CONFIG_PHONE is not set

#
# ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support
#
CONFIG_IDE=y

#
# IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y

#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
# CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK_VENDOR is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_COMMERIAL is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set

#
# IDE chipset support/bugfixes
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ISAPNP is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_WIP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AEC62XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_AMD7409 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD64X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CY82C693 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT34X is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HPT366 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
CONFIG_PIIX_TUNING=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OSB4 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SIS5513 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SLC90E66 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_IDEDMA_IVB is not set
# CONFIG_DMA_NONPCI is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y

#
# SCSI support
#
# CONFIG_SCSI is not set

#
# Fusion MPT device support
#
# CONFIG_FUSION_BOOT is not set
# CONFIG_FUSION_ISENSE is not set
# CONFIG_FUSION_CTL is not set
# CONFIG_FUSION_LAN is not set

#
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support (EXPERIMENTAL)
#
# CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set

#
# I2O device support
#
# CONFIG_I2O is not set

#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y

#
# ARCnet devices
#
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
# CONFIG_BONDING is not set
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_TUN is not set
# CONFIG_ETHERTAP is not set
# CONFIG_NET_SB1000 is not set

#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
# CONFIG_ARM_AM79C961A is not set
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL is not set
# CONFIG_AT1700 is not set
# CONFIG_DEPCA is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCNET32 is not set
# CONFIG_ADAPTEC_STARFIRE is not set
# CONFIG_AC3200 is not set
# CONFIG_APRICOT is not set
# CONFIG_CS89x0 is not set
# CONFIG_TULIP is not set
# CONFIG_DE4X5 is not set
# CONFIG_DGRS is not set
# CONFIG_DM9102 is not set
# CONFIG_EEPRO100 is not set
# CONFIG_LNE390 is not set
# CONFIG_FEALNX is not set
# CONFIG_NATSEMI is not set
# CONFIG_NE2K_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_NE3210 is not set
# CONFIG_ES3210 is not set
CONFIG_8139TOO=y
# CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
# CONFIG_8139TOO_8129 is not set
# CONFIG_SIS900 is not set
# CONFIG_EPIC100 is not set
# CONFIG_SUNDANCE is not set
# CONFIG_TLAN is not set
# CONFIG_VIA_RHINE is not set
# CONFIG_WINBOND_840 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set

#
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_ACENIC is not set
# CONFIG_DL2K is not set
# CONFIG_HAMACHI is not set
# CONFIG_YELLOWFIN is not set
# CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set
# CONFIG_FDDI is not set
# CONFIG_HIPPI is not set
# CONFIG_PPP is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP is not set

#
# Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)
#
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set

#
# Token Ring devices
#
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_NET_FC is not set
# CONFIG_RCPCI is not set
# CONFIG_SHAPER is not set

#
# Wan interfaces
#
# CONFIG_WAN is not set

#
# Amateur Radio support
#
# CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set

#
# IrDA (infrared) support
#
# CONFIG_IRDA is not set

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set

#
# Old CD-ROM drivers (not SCSI, not IDE)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set

#
# Input core support
#
# CONFIG_INPUT is not set

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_EXTENDED is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256

#
# I2C support
#
# CONFIG_I2C is not set

#
# Mice
#
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MOUSE is not set

#
# Joysticks
#

#
# Game port support
#

#
# Gameport joysticks
#

#
# Serial port support
#

#
# Serial port joysticks
#

#
# Parallel port joysticks
#

#
#   Parport support is needed for parallel port joysticks
#
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set

#
# Watchdog Cards
#
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_INTEL_RNG is not set
# CONFIG_NVRAM is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set
# CONFIG_DTLK is not set
# CONFIG_R3964 is not set
# CONFIG_APPLICOM is not set
# CONFIG_SONYPI is not set

#
# Ftape, the floppy tape device driver
#
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_AGP is not set
# CONFIG_DRM is not set

#
# Multimedia devices
#
# CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV is not set

#
# File systems
#
CONFIG_QUOTA=y
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
# CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
# CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set
# CONFIG_TMPFS is not set
# CONFIG_RAMFS is not set
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
# CONFIG_VXFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
# CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
# CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UDF_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set

#
# Network File Systems
#
# CONFIG_CODA_FS is not set
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NCP_FS is not set

#
# Partition Types
#
# CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_SMB_NLS is not set
CONFIG_NLS=y

#
# Native Language Support
#
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="cp437"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_737 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_775 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_852 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_855 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_857 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_860 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_861 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_862 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_863 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_864 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_865 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_869 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_936 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_950 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_932 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_949 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_874 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_8 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_1251 is not set
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_2 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_3 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_4 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_5 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_6 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_7 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_9 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_13 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_14 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15 is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_U is not set
# CONFIG_NLS_UTF8 is not set

#
# Console drivers
#
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT is not set
# CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set

#
# Frame-buffer support
#
# CONFIG_FB is not set

#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set

#
# USB support
#
# CONFIG_USB is not set

#
# Bluetooth support
#
# CONFIG_BLUEZ is not set

#
# Kernel hacking
#
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

This configuration works with 2.4.4, but later versions it hangs as
described above.  Linux has served me very well since the days of the
1.1.3 kernel :-)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

LeRoy


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