2.4.18+ 867 Mhz QuickSilver = totally crazy

Tue Apr 9 20:00:00 2002

From: Christopher Murtagh <christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca>
> On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Chaz Kelsh wrote:
> >The 2.4.18 kernel is definitely broken, at least for 867mhz
> >Quicksilvers.
> 
>  Really?? One of my busiest machines is running on a G4/867 without any
> problems. It takes on about 170,000 (dynamic) page requests per day and
> has been working like a charm:
> 
> [chris@cochise chris]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> cpu             : 7450, altivec supported
> temperature     : 1-76 C (uncalibrated)
> clock           : 866MHz
> revision        : 2.1 (pvr 8000 0201)
> bogomips        : 865.07
> machine         : PowerMac3,5
> motherboard     : PowerMac3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
> L2 cache        : 256K unified
> memory          : 896MB
> pmac-generation : NewWorld
> [chris@cochise chris]$ uname -a
> Linux cochise.wcg.mcgill.ca 2.4.18pre1-2 #1 Sun Jan 27 15:10:06 EST 2002 ppc unknown
> [chris@cochise chris]$ uptime
>   9:24pm  up 72 days, 40 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.45, 0.28, 0.23

I have the same machine (even the amount of ram is the same). 
THE KERNELs of 2.4.18-preX work like a charm, BUT THE KERNELs of 
2.4.19-preX (including 2.4.18-ben0 and pre6) do not work, they do 
not boot the machine. In the way of start up process (just after 
mounting / partition with readonly), the machine hangs silently, 
even does not show any kernel debugger message in most cases.

Thanks,
kaz