Messages in this thread | | | From | Chris Bruner <> | Subject | Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6 | Date | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:21:16 -0500 |
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FYI, I found that the problem I was having was caused by the "BIOS Enhanced Disk Drives" turned on. It was on in previous versions as well, and they worked ok, so I assume that something has changed. In anycase turning it off fixed my problem.
Chris Bruner
On Wed January 19 2005 06:13 pm, Janos Farkas wrote: > Hi Andi! > > I had difficulties booting recent rc1-bkN kernels on at least two > Athlon machines (but somehow, on an *old* Pentium laptop booted with the > a very similar system just fine). > > The kernel just hung very early, just after displaying "BIOS data check > successful" by lilo (22.6.1). Ctrl-Alt-Del worked to reboot, but > nothing else was shown. > > It is a similar experience to Chris Bruner's post here: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/271352 > > I also recall someone having similar problem with Opterons too, but > can't find just now.. > > rc1-bk6 didn't boot, and thus I started checking revisions: > rc1-bk3 did boot (as well as plain rc1) > rc1-bk4 didn't boot > > rc1-bk7 booted *after* reverting the patch below: > > 4 days ak 1.2329.1.38 [PATCH] x86_64/i386: increase command line size > > Enlarge i386/x86-64 kernel command line to 2k > > This is useful when the kernel command line is used to pass other > > information to initrds or installers. > > On i386 it was duplicated for unknown reasons. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton > > Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds > > While arguably it's not a completely scientific approach (no plain bk7, > and no bk6 reverted was tested), I'm inclined to say this was my > problem... > > Isn't this define a lilo dependence?
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