Re: [parisc-linux] kdb_v21 branch updated to -pa26, and kallsyms cross-compile

[Patrick Caulfield <patrick@tykepenguin.com>]

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