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
next prev parent 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
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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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