Re: 2.3.24 does not boot here.

Nasser Abbasi (nabbasi@pacbell.net)
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 20:11:49 -0700

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Linus Torvalds wrote:
>

> Nasser Abbasi <nabbasi@pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> >So It looks something was introduced in 2.2.23 that is
> >making it hang on boot.
>

> 2.3.23 and 24 have a stupid bug that makes then not boot on UP machines
> if they were compiled for SMP. Might that be the case for you?
>
> Linus

Yes!

by default, make xconfig, showed SMP to be compiled into the kernel.
turned that to 'n', and now 2.3.24 does NOT hang on boot.
Also, no hang up after shutdown -h now, as was with the case with
2.3.22.

thanks Linus! this fixed the problem.

>uname -a
Linux suse 2.3.24 #2 Thu Oct 28 19:39:22 PDT 1999 i686 unknown

\nasser

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