I have tried the 2.4.19-r7 openmosix kernel on 2 different machines (1.7 Gig P4 laptop and 500 Mhz PIII desktop). On both machines, I was able to build the kernel, but when I tried to use it, it hung on startup. The last line I see on the screen is; VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. I have tried the previous version (2.4.19-r6) on the laptop and it appears to work - I've not actually tried any of the openmosix functions yet, but it seems to be working fine as a regular kernel. I will try this version on the desktop tomorrow. I tried to keep the kernel options the same in both cases, but it's possible I missed something (or they had different defaults ?)
try this # cd /usr/src/linux - save your config file # cp .config ../config.save # make mrproper # mv ../config.save .config # make oldconfig # make menuconfig - make sure everything is as you want it # make dep && make bzImage modules && make modules_install
Hi, I tried the above - it doesn't make any difference. However, the new version of the sources (-r8) appear to work ok (as do r6), so the problem seems to be confined to just the r7 level. Feel free to go ahead and close this given that the new release seems to work ok. Thanks, Martyn.
Ok, so I'll close this bug now. I don't know what happened to the openmosix-patch in openmosix-sources-r7 (openmosix-6), I changed nothing, maybe it was because of the incresed HZ value (which has been reverted to 100 in openmosix-sources-r8 (openmosix-7).
