>
> Hi,
> We have around 25 Digital Celebris FP 590 PC´s for our students here
> in Vienna. Recently we tried to upgrade our Linux-System from 2.0.X to
> 2.2.X. On around 50% of our PC´s it worked, on the others Linux
> hangs at boot time. It seems that around 50% of our PC´s have another
> Motherboard-Revision, perhaps this is the reason for the failure but
> it is impossible to upgrade all motherboards.
>
> We tried to load Linux with LILO, loadlin and directly from a floppy
> (created with "dd"), always the same behavior:
>
> Uncompressing Linux...done
> Now booting the Kernel
> _
>
> And here it hangs. Ah yes, the DEC-Celebris is a Pentium-100 with 32MB
> RAM, an Adaptec 2940U SCSI-Controller, one IDE, one SCSI-Disk and
> a Soundblaster 16.
>
> Do you have any solution to this problem or do we have to get stuck
> with the 2.0.X kernel series?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Best Regards,
> Hermann Himmelbauer
I had the same problem with a K5 -- I changed a bunch of options
(almost at random) and finally got it to boot. The options I suspect
the were causing my hangs are one of the following:
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=n
CONFIG_PNP=n
After I changed only those to:
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_PNP=y
it booted perfectly (no idea why (or which) as yet).
Hope this helps.
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