On Sat, Feb 19, 2000, Patrick Callahan [off-list ref] wrote:

Is it possible that this PCI-PCI bridge scan timing problem manifests
itself in earlier kernels on Blue
G3's as intermittent boot failures?  Ocasionally when I run in MacOS 8.6
for a time, and then boot into Linux using the BootX application version
1.2.? the boot gets to the point where it writes out the word booting...
on the console. but no further.

Is this worth investigating and fixing in the stable kernel if it is
shown to be a problem there?

Did you try compiling with xmon enabled in the config ? There's a small
buglet in the current devel tree that can break if it's not enabled.

Also, On NewWorld machines, yaboot booting should be more reliable than BootX.


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