On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:47:49 +0100 (CET), Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, 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. > > > > 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.
As I mentioned in my first message, I did hook up a serial console except I used the console=ttyS0,115200 boot parameter, but the kernel rebooted before any output appeared. I can try the earlyprintk= version above next time I'm near the 486 if you think it will make any difference. > Can you please provide your .config file ? I posted a link to it in my first message: >Config is at http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/tmp/486-config-2.6.24-rc1. >The kernel is unpatched 2.6.24-rc1 compiled with gcc-4.2.2. /Mikael - 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/