Re: [Bug 7505] Linux-2.6.18 fails to boot on AMD64 machine

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:32:51 +0100
Stefano Takekawa <take@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Applied to 2.6.19 it doesn't change anything. It still panics.

Really?

And you can confirm that converting pci_bus_sem back into a spinlock fixes
it?

> How can I have something similar to a serial console on a laptop without
> serial port but with a parallel one? Will netconsole work?
> 

No, netconsole isn't available for quite some time after the kernel starts.

Your best bet would be to boot with `earlyprintk=vga vga=N', where N is
something which gives lots of rows.  0F01, perhaps.

Then, take a digital photo of the display.
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