On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 22:24 +0200, Dominic Sacré wrote: > On Wednesday, 20. September 2006 17:52, I wrote: > > PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:08.0 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:0b.0 > > PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:01:00.0 > > PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:08.1 > > NET: Registered protocol family 2 > > > > Then it just stops. I've tried many different kernel versions > > (2.6.17-rt8, 2.6.17-rt5, even as far back as 2.6.13-rt14), to no avail. > > I also tried turning ACPI and APIC on/off, which didn't help either. > > Now I'm at a loss... The same kernels boot just fine on a more recent > > machine. > > I've finally found a kernel that works on both machines: 2.6.18-rt3! It's > far from stable, but at least it boots, unlike all the previous versions > I've tried. Now I can only hope that the remaining issues will be resolved > in future versions of 2.6.18-rt... > What's wrong with it? People keep making these vague statements that the -rt kernel is unstable, but I haven't seen any details. Lee