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

From: Gabriel C
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 08:43:04 EST


Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> 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.

Maybe try to set CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY and boot with boot_delay=N ?

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


Regards,

Gabriel
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