Re: Can't boot 2.6.1-mm4 or -mm5

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
>
> I can't boot either of them. 2.6.1-mm3 was OK; compiling and booting -mm4 or 
> -mm5 with the same config as before (since 2.5.69 actually). Compiling and 
> booting with VESA framebuffer and vga=788 gives empty screen; booting with 
> vga=normal or compiling without framebuffer support goes as far as
> 
> Uncompressing kernel ... booting
> 
> and that is all. No disk activity either so it seems to have just stopped.

Don't know, sorry.  Does anyone have a slightly-sane early printk patch
handy?

> 
> {pts/0}% gcc --version
> gcc-3.3.1 (GCC) 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)
> Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
> 
> system is ASUS CUSL2, i815 chipset, GeForce2 MX videocard. lspci on 2.6.0 
> follows; config for -mm5 is attached. It was produced by using config from 
> -mm3, running make oldconfig and answering N to most new questions. It is 
> possible that there is problem with new CPU selection but I alaways compiled 
> with PentiumIII only before.

I'd try enabling more CPU types, see what that does.  You have SMP enabled,
but that should be OK.