Re: Boot failure, VIA chipset.

From: Daniel Taylor (dtaylor@vocalabs.com)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 11:31:43 EST


On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Balram Adlakha wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:11:54AM -0500, Daniel Taylor wrote:
> > I have a KT400-based system that will not boot the 2.5 series kernels.
> >
> > It fails with a hard lock immediately after the video mode query when
> > VGA=ask is set in /etc/lilo.conf.
> >
> > If anyone else is working on this contact me, otherwise I'll post
> > my results when I get it working.
> >
>
> And what happens when VGA=ask is not set? What happens when its disabled in the config?
>
It fails silently after unpacking the kernel.

Sorry, I was insufficiently clear on that.

So far I have tried:
  Disabling all module functions
  Disabling APIC
  Recompiling for 386 rather than K7
  Disabling all special video options (Framebuf, video mode select)

I have yet to try a completely minimal 386 config, that is my next step,
then I start putting printk()'s in to localise the hang more effectively.

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