I believe that -rt5 had a problem. I never built it so I only heard about it. Please try the current version -rt12: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ This still builds on top of the linux 2.6.14.tar.bz file, just like -rt5 does, and NOT the newer stable kernel. - Mark On 11/14/05, thewade <pdman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am still trying to get rt5 built... > Now my problem is that when I boot the rt kernel it all looks good - I > get to the screen with the Fedora booting progress bar - but when the > kernel tries to remount root in read/write mode the machine freezes. > I am using the default config file for Fedora Core 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 > except I changed preempt to volentary, processor Hz to 1000, processor > type to Athlon64, and threaded hard and soft IRQ's. i may have forgotten > something that I changed but can you think of a reason that the kernel > would freeze when trying to remount the root device? It seems odd > becasue if it can mount the device to load the kernel then why can't it > remount that same device? > > Thanks for the help! (After I get the sweet kernel working I have tr > rebuild the cool ati-fglrx module that complains about spinlocking. > Fun... :P) > -thewade > > [pdman@musicbox ~]$ cat /etc/fstab > # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > LABEL=SWAP-hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto > pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 > [pdman@musicbox ~]$ cat /etc/mtab > /dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/proc /proc proc rw 0 0 > /dev/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0 > /dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > /dev/hda2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 > none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0 > sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0 > automount(pid2065) /misc autofs rw,fd=4,pgrp=2065,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 > automount(pid2081) /net autofs rw,fd=4,pgrp=2081,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0 >