On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 11:39, Clifford Snow wrote: > 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. As an FYI, there is a new (fixed) NTFS kernel module RPM available from the site: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/index.html HTH, Marc Schwartz
