Messages in this thread |  | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: completely undiagnosable (for me) kernel boot problem | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:26:23 +0200 |
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On 23 January 2003 06:20, Sam Gendler wrote: > the main one) fails. It successfully uncompresses vmlinuz and > initrd.img, then clears the screen and displays the message > "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel." and leaves a > blinking cursor two lines below. Nothing ever happens subsequent to > that.
Heh... you'll have to mess up with boot code. CCed to DragonK <dragon_krome@yahoo.com> (he had similar 'no boot' horror story, and was able to diagnose it).
> was complaining about a 2.88MB boot image. Also, the same symptoms > occur whether I boot from the net or the CDR/DVD drive, so I don't > think it is the device. I don't know how to go about finding out > what is hanging the system, and I don't have a system available to me > on which I can comple a custom kernel. This is the only machine I > have, and it now has nothing but freeDOS on it.
Thats strange. How did you managed to try network boot without a second system available to you? Did you tried to copy kernel to DOS partition and load it with loadlin or linld?
http://www.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua/linux/vda/linld/
A long time ago I said to "W. Michael Petullo" <mike@flyn.org>: >> Since the kernel does not even peep an oops message, I'm not sure where >> to start debugging. Is anyone else having similar problems? > >If noone will send you a suggestion, I'm afraid you'll have to put debug >stores to video memory all over startup code. > >C example (assumes 1:1 address mapping) > >char *p = (char*)0x000b8000; // color VGA text framebuffer >p[(col+row*80)*2] = 'Z'; // character >p[(col+row*80)*2+1] = 0x0f; // attr (0x0f=white on black) > >You may try this first with booting kernel to be sure it works. >Good luck. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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