I booting kernel on 8xx 2.6.10-rc3
while trying to debug non-working console,
I moved  console_init() call way down in __init start_kernel()
and put indefinite while loop right after it -
is it legtimate thing to do ?

Then I got soft reboot and was able to examine the content of the log buffer
in the bootloader.
I see that in a trace (function call sequence):

console_init()->con_init()->__alloc_bootmem() 

I am getting "Oops: kernel access of bad area"

I am looking for advise,
Thanks,
Alex
******************************************************  
         ...........
        lock_kernel();
        page_address_init();
        printk(linux_banner);
        setup_arch(&command_line);
        setup_per_cpu_areas();

        /*
         * Mark the boot cpu "online" so that it can call console drivers in
         * printk() and can access its per-cpu storage.
         */
        smp_prepare_boot_cpu();

        /*
         * Set up the scheduler prior starting any interrupts (such as the
         * timer interrupt). Full topology setup happens at smp_init()
         * time - but meanwhile we still have a functioning scheduler.
         */
        sched_init();
        build_all_zonelists();
        page_alloc_init();
        printk("Kernel command line: %s\n", saved_command_line);
        parse_early_param();
        parse_args("Booting kernel", command_line, __start___param,
                   __stop___param - __start___param,
                   &unknown_bootoption);
        sort_main_extable();
        trap_init();
        rcu_init();
        init_IRQ();
        pidhash_init();
        init_timers();
        softirq_init();
        time_init();
        /*
         * HACK ALERT! This is early. We're ena bling the console before
         * we've done PCI setups etc, and console_init() must be aware of
         * this. But we do want output early, in case something goes wrong.
         */
/*      console_init();   */
<<========================================================
        if (panic_later)
                panic(panic_later, panic_param);
        profile_init();
        local_irq_enable();
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRDa
        if (initrd_start && !initrd_below_start_ok &&
                        initrd_start < min_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) {
                printk(KERN_CRIT "initrd overwritten (0x%08lx < 0x%08lx) - "
                    "disabling it.\n",initrd_start,min_low_pfn <<
PAGE_SHIFT);
                initrd_start = 0;
        }
#endif
        vfs_caches_init_early();
        mem_init();
        kmem_cache_init();
        console_init();
<<========================================================
        while (1);
<<======================================================== 
        numa_policy_init();
        if (late_time_init)
                late_time_init();
        calibrate_delay();
        pidmap_init();
        pgtable_cache_init();
        prio_tree_init();
        anon_vma_init();
#ifdef CONFIG_X86
        ......                                                             

*******************                ******************

grep log_buf System.map
c0197a28 d log_buf
c0197a2c d log_buf_len
c01c6464 t log_buf_len_setup
c01d03a0 t __setup_str_log_buf_len_setup
c01d08f0 t __setup_log_buf_len_setup
c01d4a9c b __log_buf
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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3.4.1)
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24
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200
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t
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8192.
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81
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b
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LIFO
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li
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console=ttyC
1d4bde  | 50 4d 30 2c 31 31 35 32 30 30 20 70 61 6e 69 63  |  PM0,115200
panic
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root=/dev/ram
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bytes).<4>Decrem
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sync
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<0>Reb
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seco
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nds.............
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