On Fri, 01 Jun 2001 16:35:07 +0200,
"Klaus Strebel,ITS,204" <stb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>yesterday i updated my linux-2.4-xfs cvs-tree (after waiting anxiously
>for oss.sgi.com to be reachable again, sigh :-) ), compliled it,
>installed it, booted and ... by box kept hanging at the 'ifconfig lo
>127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 dev lo'. I unconfigured START_LOOPBACK (i'm
>using SuSE 7. almost 1, couldn't find a way to do the SuSE-upgrade
>procedure with a xfs-enabled kernel, only / and /boot are ext2), tried
>it again, an by box hang at loading the next network driver :-(.
>
>So i downloaded linux-2.4.5-xfs-05312001.patch.bz2 from oss.sgi.com,
>removed everything not necessary for xfs from it (kernel debugger,
>ac-patch things, lvm upgrades - upgraded myself to 0.9.1beta7 ...) and
>no it works! Is KDB broken ??
Works for me :). This is top of tree as of Fri Jun 1 15:10:23 UTC
2001, configured with xfs and kdb.
Linux ocs4 2.4.5-xfs #1 SMP Sat Jun 2 01:10:01 EST 2001 i686 unknown
Entering non-interactive startup
Setting network parameters: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
Your problem sounds like a generic network problem, not XFS. There
have been some recent patches by Jeff Garzick for timing related
problems with network drivers on 2.4.5. Try linux-kernel.
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