On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:28:05PM -0500, TWEDE,ROGER (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > I found that the 2.4.18 system boots fine when booting from standard devices > (IDE disks etc.). > > Init fails to execute successfully when booting from NFS. The NFS booting > success appears to have died with 2.4.18. > > The NFS boot completes fine in 2.4.17 but in 2.4.18 the NFS root is mounted > and /sbin/init and the ld.so.1 are at least accessed, but the system never > executes far enough in user space to even print a message to the console. > > I've tried two different network card types just to be sure it wasn't a > single driver issue. > > Has anyone noticed this or does anyone know what changes may have caused > this in 2.4.18? > I'm curious whether anyone has successfully booted 2.4.18 over NFS. Problems like this are frequently caused by cache coherence problems in a network driver. Ralf
