linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 7505] Linux-2.6.18 fails to boot on AMD64 machine

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Message-Id: <20061222014341.5ba33788.akpm@osdl.org>
Date:	Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:43:41 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Stefano Takekawa <take@...ero.it>
Cc:	Ard -kwaak- van Breemen <ard@...egraafnet.nl>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@...el.com>,
	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@...puserve.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@....com>, agalanin@...a.ru,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug 7505] Linux-2.6.18 fails to boot on AMD64 machine

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:32:51 +0100
Stefano Takekawa <take@...ero.it> wrote:

> Applied to 2.6.19 it doesn't change anything. It still panics.

Really?

And you can confirm that converting pci_bus_sem back into a spinlock fixes
it?

> How can I have something similar to a serial console on a laptop without
> serial port but with a parallel one? Will netconsole work?
> 

No, netconsole isn't available for quite some time after the kernel starts.

Your best bet would be to boot with `earlyprintk=vga vga=N', where N is
something which gives lots of rows.  0F01, perhaps.

Then, take a digital photo of the display.
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