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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:59:28 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Frank Dekervel <kervel@drie.kotnet.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 (does not boot)
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Frank Dekervel <kervel@drie.kotnet.org> wrote:
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> 2.6.0-test9-mm4 doesn't boot for me ... oops followed by 
> kernel panic - attempted to kill init (2.6.0-test9 works fine). 
> it crashes right after initialising PNP  bios. 

Please make sure that you have CONFIG_KALLSYMS set.

It would help to add `initcall_debug' to the kernel boot command line. 
That way you will find out the address of the final initcall which was
invoked before the kernel crashed.  Please look that up in System.map.

Thanks.