Hanging around with 2.4.5-xfs from cvs

["Klaus Strebel,ITS,204" <stb@ep-ag.com>]

Hi everybody,

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 :-(.

First i expected that my cvs tree was corrupt, rm'ed it and recheck it 
out. Same result. Hm, is it possible that 2.4.5 doesn't work on my box 
at all? Pulled a vanilla kernel source from kernel.org and tried it out. 
Well it started and all what could be seen (without xfs-filesystems) 
worked just fine.

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 ??

Ciao
Klaus