Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:13:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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...

Yup, I noticed as well :)

     tglx
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