Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:34:22 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | 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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> All result in the same behaviour and I'm somewhat at a loss > as to how to debug this further, being a sysadmin rather than > a real kernel hacker. :-( > > I've attached the 2.6.39-rc4 kernel config from point 4, and > the kernel config for the working Debian kernel (2.6.18-6-686). > > I've also attached the contents of /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/io*, > /proc/scsi/scsi, /proc/modules and the output of lspci -vvv > and of dmesg from Debian Sarge running the Debian Etch kernel > (2.6.18-6-686). > > 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 ?
earlyprintk=vga
(or better yet earlyprintk=ttyS0 and a serial port)
There are a couple of PPro funnies - there's an area of memory that must be excluded due to a chip errata and I seem to remember some PPro boxes also having slightly quirking E820 (BIOS memory reporting behaviour)
Alan
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