Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:22:44 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm1
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Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>
> 
> 2.6.4-mm1 doesn't work for me :-(
> 
> I get the:
>    Uncompressing kernel ... now booting Linux
> 
> message, and then ...... nothing.
> 
> I've seen this before when trying to boot a P4 kernel on a P-classic
> etc, so I tried compiling with CONFIG_M386, and got lots of compile
> errors:
> 
> include/asm/acpi.h: In function `__acpi_acquire_global_lock':
> include/asm/acpi.h:74: warning: implicit declaration of function `cmpxchg'
> 
> So I tried the default (CONFIG_M686) and it still doesn't work.
> 
> So: where do I look next?
> 
> I've included some of the machine specs below together with a config
> file.

Tried adding earlyprintk=vga?

If that works, judicious addition of printks will narrow it down.
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