On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 17:58 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > kjournald starting Commit interval 5 seconds > > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed > > (keyboard still echoed onscreen, disk parked) > > > > Adding init=/bin/bash is no better. > > So its the user space which is broken. Make sure the user space has the > right /dev etc - and is for the right CPU - a 200MHz pentium means you > need i386 or i586 binaries. i686/athlon binaries would produce the effect > you report. Remember this? The problem appears to have been uClibc-0.9.29. Dropping the system to uClibc-0.9.28.3 and building the minimum as a proof of concept, I'm running with init=/bin/bash. This is using the same 2 kernels, one compiled under uClibc-0.9.29, and one under glibc (not installed there) which seems to indicate that the kernel is fairly libc independent. I have both systems on that laptop currently. Hda3(with uClibc-0.9.28.3) boots whereas the same system on hda4 (uClibc-0.9.29)does not. It's actually quite audible whether it works or not, as you barely hear the hard disk on the dodgy one at all, while the good one gives it a thrashing before coming up with. It's either that libc or some i686 code sneaked through to the old pentium. If I knew a handy way to check that, I'd do for it. -- With Best Regards, Declan Moriarty - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html