On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 00:48, Clive Long wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the latest kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 a > few days ago. > > Each boot attempt results in a long period spent at > message > > "Enabling swap space" > > then the machine hangs at message > > "Spurious 8259A interrupt IRQ7" > > I have subsequently tried booting the machine from the > previous 2.6.6 kernel and that hung as well. I haven't > had time to go back to earlier kernels. > > Prior to this new kernel I had no problems booting FC2 > on my laptop. > > Any idea what the problem is and how to go forward? Or > any further diagnostic info I can post > > Machine: IBM T21 > Memory: 256M (?) I had the same problem when I installed the latest ntfs driver from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/index.html on my laptop. I needed to remove ntfs support, rpm -e kernel-ntfs, to solve the problem. I later recompiled the driver using help in a bugzilla report. -- Clifford Snow
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