[parisc-linux] C180 appears to hang booting current kernels

[Chris Jantzen]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:07:03PM -0800, Christian Suder wrote:
> I have a C180 running 2.4.19-pa9 just fine. However recent 2.4 kernels
> hang, or appear to hang (I'm not the patient type...;-) after the
> "branching to kernel entry...." The heartbeat LED slowly blinks two times
> every 10 seconds or so, I've been waiting maybe 5 minutes. 
> 
> I found some discussion on this back in November, it's not quite clear if
> the discussed changes were ever made. 
> 
> Any hope ?

Just be patient. It takes as long as 30 minutes to work it's way through
some tests. There is a fix for this, but it may take a while to trickle
down to testing and stable users. I'm sure others can answers this in
more depth. I was worried for my C180 for a while, too.

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