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On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 07:01:21PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Earlyprintk please?

PXELINUX 3.82 2009-06-09  Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H. Peter Anvin et al
Loading vmlinuz.......................................................................
Loading initramfs.cpio.gz.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ready.
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
early console in decompress_kernel

Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.


Interestingly enough I only see this on any AMD machine - different
motherboards, different memory configurations.

And also in a HVM guest running on an AMD machine. If it runs on Intel
it works just fine.