Moses Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On some older hardware I'm trying to use, 2.6.13 (and 2.6.12.3, the only
>  other 2.6 kernel tested on this hardware)  lock up right after boot, there
>  are no indications about what specifically is wrong.  The last few lines
>  before the lockup are:
> 
>  382MB LOWMEM available
>  DMI 2.3 present
>  Allocating PCI resources starting at <some numbers>
>  Built 1 zonelists
>  Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro
>  Initialing CPU#0
> 
>  I can get the numbers if needed.
> 
>  2.4.31 works without problems.

Well that sucks.

You may get some more output if you add `earlyprintk=vga' to the kernel
boot command line.

To narrow down where it's hanging we'll need to start sprinkling printk()s.
Something like this: 


diff -puN init/main.c~a init/main.c
--- devel/init/main.c~a 2005-09-01 21:03:50.000000000 -0700
+++ devel-akpm/init/main.c      2005-09-01 21:05:28.000000000 -0700
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@
 #include <asm/setup.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 
+#define D() do { printk("%s:%d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__); } while (0)
+
 /*
  * This is one of the first .c files built. Error out early
  * if we have compiler trouble..
@@ -467,13 +469,21 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void
                   __stop___param - __start___param,
                   &unknown_bootoption);
        sort_main_extable();
+       D();
        trap_init();
+       D();
        rcu_init();
+       D();
        init_IRQ();
+       D();
        pidhash_init();
+       D();
        init_timers();
+       D();
        softirq_init();
+       D();
        time_init();
+       D();
 
        /*
         * HACK ALERT! This is early. We're enabling the console before
@@ -481,10 +491,14 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void
         * this. But we do want output early, in case something goes wrong.
         */
        console_init();
+       D();
        if (panic_later)
                panic(panic_later, panic_param);
+       D();
        profile_init();
+       D();
        local_irq_enable();
+       D();
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD
        if (initrd_start && !initrd_below_start_ok &&
                        initrd_start < min_low_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) {
@@ -493,41 +507,68 @@ asmlinkage void __init start_kernel(void
                initrd_start = 0;
        }
 #endif
+       D();
        vfs_caches_init_early();
+       D();
        mem_init();
+       D();
        kmem_cache_init();
+       D();
        setup_per_cpu_pageset();
+       D();
        numa_policy_init();
+       D();
        if (late_time_init)
                late_time_init();
+       D();
        calibrate_delay();
+       D();
        pidmap_init();
+       D();
        pgtable_cache_init();
+       D();
        prio_tree_init();
+       D();
        anon_vma_init();
+       D();
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86
        if (efi_enabled)
                efi_enter_virtual_mode();
 #endif
+       D();
        fork_init(num_physpages);
+       D();
        proc_caches_init();
+       D();
        buffer_init();
+       D();
        unnamed_dev_init();
+       D();
        key_init();
+       D();
        security_init();
+       D();
        vfs_caches_init(num_physpages);
+       D();
        radix_tree_init();
+       D();
        signals_init();
+       D();
        /* rootfs populating might need page-writeback */
        page_writeback_init();
+       D();
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
        proc_root_init();
 #endif
+       D();
        cpuset_init();
+       D();
 
        check_bugs();
+       D();
 
        acpi_early_init(); /* before LAPIC and SMP init */
+       D();
 
        /* Do the rest non-__init'ed, we're now alive */
        rest_init();
_

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