Problems booting 2.4.6 ac release

Hello,

I'm having problems booting linux on my IBM Thinkpad A20 laptop.

Having got the machine working nicely with Debian "woody" I decided to upgrade to 2.4.5 - which caused no end of problems, as it would fail to boot correctly.

It would freeze at:

Freeing unused memory 242k ...

So, at the point I upgraded to -ac23 which worked fine. So then 2.4.6 comes along, and I have exactly the same problem.

Are the 'ac' release not incorportated into future releases?

Thanks for any help in advance.

Chris

Chris,

Did you happen to compile IrDA into the kernel? This has been broken for at least with 2.4.5. there are fixes in the -ac patches that have not been applied to the mainstream kernel yet. If you compile IrDA as a module, or use -acXX, the kernel will be able to proceed to exec'ing INIT.

-Aaron Longfield

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Chris Massam wrote:

%Hello,
%
%I'm having problems booting linux on my IBM Thinkpad A20 laptop. %
%Having got the machine working nicely with Debian "woody" I decided to %upgrade to 2.4.5 - which caused no end of problems, as it would fail to boot %correctly.
%
%It would freeze at:
%
%Freeing unused memory 242k ...
%
%So, at the point I upgraded to -ac23 which worked fine.
%So then 2.4.6 comes along, and I have exactly the same problem. %
%Are the 'ac' release not incorportated into future releases?
%
%Thanks for any help in advance.
%
%Chris