Re: 2.6.4-mm1

Andrew Morton
2004-03-12T01:22:41Z

Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>
>
> 2.6.4-mm1 doesn't work for me :-(
>
> I get the:
> Uncompressing kernel ... now booting Linux
>
> message, and then ...... nothing.
>
> I've seen this before when trying to boot a P4 kernel on a P-classic
> etc, so I tried compiling with CONFIG_M386, and got lots of compile
> errors:
>
> include/asm/acpi.h: In function `__acpi_acquire_global_lock':
> include/asm/acpi.h:74: warning: implicit declaration of function `cmpxchg'
>
> So I tried the default (CONFIG_M686) and it still doesn't work.
>
> So: where do I look next?
>
> I've included some of the machine specs below together with a config
> file.

Tried adding earlyprintk=vga?

If that works, judicious addition of printks will narrow it down.