From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from tyke.pjc.net (public1-leed3-5-cust141.leed.broadband.ntl.com [80.0.5.141]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C39483E for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:19:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from patrick by tyke.pjc.net with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17FItv-0000vr-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 19:19:23 +0100 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 19:19:23 +0100 From: Patrick Caulfield To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] kdb_v21 branch updated to -pa26, and kallsyms cross-compile Message-ID: <20020604181923.GA3570@tykepenguin.com> References: <20020529162438.GJ9919@tykepenguin.com> <20020529132631.B3691@systemhalted> <20020529180739.GL9919@tykepenguin.com> <20020530143626.GF810@tykepenguin.com> <20020530133515.B15631@systemhalted> <20020531072849.GD1145@tykepenguin.com> <20020531085419.B18658@systemhalted> <20020604115547.GB1808@tykepenguin.com> <20020604084440.A24973@systemhalted> <20020604154954.GA29187@tausq.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 In-Reply-To: <20020604154954.GA29187@tausq.org> Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:49:54AM -0700, Randolph Chung wrote: > > I think there are two maybe three places where kdb initializes > > certain structures during startup. I'm going to have to check > > those paths to see how far it gets before dying. > > > > Any comments from the crowd would be helpfull :) > > > > /me goes off to add some printk's and extra check > > i've been offline for a bit so i might have missed something... but aiui > the symptom you've been seeing is that it hangs at the "If this is the > last message you see" message? has anyone tried to compile a kernel with > early bootup messages (there's a #define in pdc_cons.c to enable this) > and see if they get farther? > > there are some debugging stuff that you can turn on in > arch/parisc/kernel/unwind.c ... that piece of code has caused some hangs > in the past, you might want to enable those printks as well. The odd thing is that is just seems to disable the FW SCSI and the serial console. If I hook up a monitor (rather a feat of equopment mbving in my house unfortunately!) I can see the boot getting as far as failing to mount the root filesystem. patrick