From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:56:58 +0000 Subject: Re: linux IA 64 kernel does not load Message-Id: <200404010856.58696.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 31 March 2004 11:46 pm, Surekha.PC wrote: > Then, I manually copied the vmlinux and System.map from > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/ into /boot/efi/ and created the corresponding links > to vmlinuz and initrd.img into /boot. > Also, there is no lilo but elilo. So I had to boot the machine, go into the > EFI shell and bring the new vmlinuz-2.4.20 entry in the elilo.conf file into > effect. However, on selecting vmlinuz-2.4.20 at the elilo prompt, the system > hangs at the first step itself. It displays "Loading linux-2.4.20 .... \" > and hangs in the load process itself. You could run the EFI elilo with "-v" to get more verbosity, but I suspect that the kernel was loaded into memory fine, and just couldn't find a console to talk to. If you're using a serial console, you need to supply something like "console=ttyS0" (i.e., by using "append" in the elilo.conf file or using "elilo vmlinux console=ttyS0" at the EFI shell prompt). The port defaults to 9600 baud; use "console=ttyS0,115200" or whatever is appropriate if you're using a different rate. If you're using a serial console on an HP machine, make sure the EFI console input/output/ error paths contain exactly one serial device (this is configured from the EFI boot manager menu).