Hi, I'm building a diskless boot kernel, with kernel version 2.6.9 and 2.6.10-RC3. The client is able to connect to the server, and load the boot image. However, whenever it reached encryption tests, the client machine hangs at there. For different kernel version, it hangs at different encryption tests. Does anyone know what's causing this problem? For version 2.6.10-RC3, it hangs at the first test of sha384 cross page: Testing sha384 cross page test1: (hangs at this point) Thanks in advance. Allen
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I'm building a diskless boot kernel, with kernel version 2.6.9 and 2.6.10-RC3. The client is able to connect to the server, and load the boot image. However, whenever it reached encryption tests, the client machine hangs at there. For different kernel version, it hangs at different encryption tests. Does anyone know what's causing this problem?
No, but I'd guess that you have a missing kernel module early in the boot process. I'm guessing this is DHCP root over NFS, in which case you need some way of making sure the kernel has everything it needs until the NFS partitions are mounted. I'd try compiling more directly into the kernel, maybe some of the cryptographic modules, CRYPTO_SHA*, but I believe you can also send the boot kernel with an initrd. -- JDL
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