FC2 Kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 hanging during boot process

[Marc Schwartz]

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