Re: Can't boot 2.6.1-mm4 or -mm5

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:15:54 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

| Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
| >
| > I can't boot either of them. 2.6.1-mm3 was OK; compiling and booting -mm4 or 
| > -mm5 with the same config as before (since 2.5.69 actually). Compiling and 
| > booting with VESA framebuffer and vga=788 gives empty screen; booting with 
| > vga=normal or compiling without framebuffer support goes as far as
| > 
| > Uncompressing kernel ... booting
| > 
| > and that is all. No disk activity either so it seems to have just stopped.
| 
| Don't know, sorry.  Does anyone have a slightly-sane early printk patch
| handy?

There's one in here:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.6.1/patch-2.6.1-mjb1.bz2

| > 
| > {pts/0}% gcc --version
| > gcc-3.3.1 (GCC) 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)
| > Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
| > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
| > 
| > system is ASUS CUSL2, i815 chipset, GeForce2 MX videocard. lspci on 2.6.0 
| > follows; config for -mm5 is attached. It was produced by using config from 
| > -mm3, running make oldconfig and answering N to most new questions. It is 
| > possible that there is problem with new CPU selection but I alaways compiled 
| > with PentiumIII only before.
| 
| I'd try enabling more CPU types, see what that does.  You have SMP enabled,
| but that should be OK.


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