Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 00:40:25 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Oops on boot with both 2.2.17 and 2.4.0t8p6 |
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Rasmus Andersen wrote:
> Hi. > > Interesting turn in my efforts to make linux boot on my newly acquired > old computer: Mike Galbraith offered me IKD for 2.4.0t8, which I > accepted and tried (I said yes to all the IKD config options). This > made 2.4.0t8 boot and get as far as complaining about bad root fs > (which is correct for it to barf over). However, right after > 'Uncompressing linux....' I get a columnfull (12 characters from left > edge in, top to bottom) of random characters with "unconventional" > color and background. The last 7 of these change rapidly, the list 5 > faster.These seem to stay on top as the boot messages goes normally > from there. They do not show up in the serial dump (not surprising). > So adding IKD to 2.4.0t8 made the initial oops go away/be hidden.
The odd colours/chars are the print EIP feature in action. You should almost never say yes to all config options.. select what you need.
_How_ sure are you that your hw is fine? Primary difference with all options enabled is speed.. much slower with all enabled.
-Mike
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