On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:33:02 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > > My old 486 fails to boot with the 2.6.24-rc1 kernel.
> > > Grub loads it, 4 lines of text appear but not the kernel's
> > > "Linux version <blah> greet", and the machine reboots.
> > > Double-checked with a serial console: nothing appears
> > > before it reboots.
> >
> > What four lines of text?
>
> They're impossible to capture because they're only visible
> on the VGA screen for like 0.2 seconds before the machine
> reboots and the screen is blanked; they don't show up on
> the serial console.
>
> They look like paths to the vmlinuz and initrd surrounded
> by [ ] brackets, so I guess they come from grub.
Any chance to use serial console ?
Enable CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK and add
earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200,keep
to the kernel command line.
Can you please provide your .config file ?
I tested on my i386 box and Linus latest git boots fine:
# uname -a
Linux museum386 2.6.24-rc1-2a397e82 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 29 13:39:29 CET 2007
i386 unknown
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : unknown
cpu family : 3
model : 0
model name : 386
stepping : unknown
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : no
fpu_exception : no
cpuid level : -1
wp : no
flags :
bogomips : 6.93
clflush size : 32
Thanks,
tglx
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