Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 02:28:47 EST


On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:33:02 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > My old 486 fails to boot with the 2.6.24-rc1 kernel.
> > Grub loads it, 4 lines of text appear but not the kernel's
> > "Linux version <blah> greet", and the machine reboots.
> > Double-checked with a serial console: nothing appears
> > before it reboots.
>
> What four lines of text?

They're impossible to capture because they're only visible
on the VGA screen for like 0.2 seconds before the machine
reboots and the screen is blanked; they don't show up on
the serial console.

They look like paths to the vmlinuz and initrd surrounded
by [ ] brackets, so I guess they come from grub.

/Mikael
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