Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:46:48 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system |
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* Chris Samuel <chris@csamuel.org> wrote:
> This box has given me good service over the past 8 years or > so and I'd hate to have to retire it now due to this when I > feel Linux should still work on it.. > > Any ideas please ?
Have you tried the earlyprintk=vga boot parameter yet? Maybe that shows more than just a silent hang ...
Other than that, do you have some other box where you can build bzImages for this system in reasonable time? If yes then you might be able to bisect to the commit that broke it.
Thanks,
Ingo
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