linux-kernel - Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486

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Date:	Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:34:58 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486

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.
> 
> All 2.6 kernels up to 2.6.23 worked fine on this machine.
> 
> 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.
> 

Any chance you could bisect this problem?

	-hpa
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