On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, David Welton wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 08:35:26AM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote:
> > > it gets stuck after printing "instantiating rtas... done" but before it
> > > manages to initialize the framebuffer.
>
> Yes, it exits prom_init, and then dies somewhere. Where, precisely, i
> have no idea.
Can you try the serial console (`console=ttyS0')? If you're lucky, you will get
some output there before it crashes.
Alternatively, I have a patch to hardbang the serial port in printk(), which I
always use to add debugging printk() when someone breaks the kernel in that
early stage.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
--
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