Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757297AbXJ2P5j (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:57:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753842AbXJ2P5c (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:57:32 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47116 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753905AbXJ2P5b (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:57:31 -0400 Message-ID: <472602D3.4010007@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:57:07 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486 References: <200710290628.l9T6SDpo012530@harpo.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 33 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/