Keith Owens wrote:
And of course the question to ask which version of the compiler are you
using? I've had problems with kdb and everything but 2.91.66 for the
compiler.
Although it never failed to boot.
> 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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Russell Cattelan
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