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From: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
Cc: hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:42:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4725D527.8030909@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710290628.l9T6SDpo012530@harpo.it.uu.se>

Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:33:02 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>>> My old 486 fails to boot with the 2.6.24-rc1 kernel.
>>> Grub loads it, 4 lines of text appear but not the kernel's
>>> "Linux version <blah> greet", and the machine reboots.
>>> Double-checked with a serial console: nothing appears
>>> before it reboots.
>> What four lines of text?
> 
> They're impossible to capture because they're only visible
> on the VGA screen for like 0.2 seconds before the machine
> reboots and the screen is blanked; they don't show up on
> the serial console.

Maybe try to set CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY and boot with boot_delay=N ?

> 
> They look like paths to the vmlinuz and initrd surrounded
> by [ ] brackets, so I guess they come from grub.
> 
> /Mikael


Regards,

Gabriel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-29  6:28 [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486 Mikael Pettersson
2007-10-29 11:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-29 12:42 ` Gabriel C [this message]
2007-10-29 13:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-29 15:57   ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-29 16:13     ` Thomas Gleixner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-30 14:07 Mikael Pettersson
2007-10-29  6:31 Mikael Pettersson
2007-10-29  0:05 Mikael Pettersson
2007-10-29  4:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-10-29  4:34 ` H. Peter Anvin

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