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

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 11:57:41 EST


Thomas Gleixner wrote:

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

Any chance to use serial console ?

Enable CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK and add
earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200,keep

to the kernel command line.

Can you please provide your .config file ?


I doubt he's getting far enough that he's actually getting early printk. I could be wrong, of course.

I tested on my i386 box and Linus latest git boots fine:
# uname -a
Linux museum386 2.6.24-rc1-2a397e82 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 29 13:39:29 CET 2007 i386 unknown
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
clflush size : 32

Hm. This probably shouldn't be displayed when clflush isn't available...

-hpa
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