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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
