Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?

From: Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Date: Tue Jan 14 2003 - 11:29:45 EST

Next message: Tigran Aivazian: "Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)"
Previous message: Andrew Walrond: "Re: 2.5.bk no longer boots from NFS root after bk pull this morning"
In reply to: William Lee Irwin III: "Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?"
Next in thread: Protasevich, Natalie: "Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
>>>I'm trying to get a box to boot and it appears to drop dead before
>>>start_kernel(). Would anyone happen to have an early_printk() analogue
>>>for 16-bit x86 code?
>>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:13:15AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
>>It could be failing in the decompression routine if it was compiled for
>>the wrong cpu (ie. using cmov instructions).
>
> The cpu has cmov. It's Pentium-III. It suceeds in one configuration of
> the machine and fails in another.

Does this mean succeeds with 32GB, but not with 48GB?

-- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Next message: Tigran Aivazian: "Re: [PATCH] don't create regular files in devfs (fwd)"
Previous message: Andrew Walrond: "Re: 2.5.bk no longer boots from NFS root after bk pull this morning"
In reply to: William Lee Irwin III: "Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?"
Next in thread: Protasevich, Natalie: "Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Jan 15 2003 - 22:00:50 EST