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

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Message-Id: <200710290628.l9T6SDpo012530@harpo.it.uu.se>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:28:13 +0100 (MET)
From:	Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>
To:	hpa@...or.com, 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

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.

/Mikael
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