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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:57:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <472602D3.4010007@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710291440570.3186@localhost.localdomain>

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>
>> They look like paths to the vmlinuz and initrd surrounded
>> by [ ] brackets, so I guess they come from grub.
> 
> Any chance to use serial console ?
> 
> Enable CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK and add
>  
> earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200,keep
> 
> to the kernel command line.
> 
> Can you please provide your .config file ?
> 

I doubt he's getting far enough that he's actually getting early printk. 
  I could be wrong, of course.

> I tested on my i386 box and Linus latest git boots fine:
> # uname -a
> Linux museum386 2.6.24-rc1-2a397e82 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 29 13:39:29 CET 2007 i386 unknown
> # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> clflush size    : 32

Hm.  This probably shouldn't be displayed when clflush isn't available...

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-29 15:57 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
2007-10-29 13:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-29 15:57   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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