From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:28:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:28:02 -0400 Received: from nat-pool-meridian.redhat.com ([199.183.24.200]:33138 "EHLO devserv.devel.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:27:52 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:28:17 -0400 From: Pete Zaitcev Message-Id: <200109161928.f8GJSHb04108@devserv.devel.redhat.com> To: bahamat@timespace.dhs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.x won't boot on sony vaio pcg-fx215 In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I don't have any specifics because with different configs I get different > errors and I don't know how to get dumps of the errors, but the usual ones are > along the lines of: You have to use a serial console in a cese like this. Only first oops is important, so those who cannot set up serial console, sometimes add "for(;;) {}" into die_if_kernel() or thereabouts to halt the machine once first oops hits the screen. -- Pete