Re: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:14:36AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
> 
> >> On node 0 totalpages: 196606
> >> DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
> >> Normal zone: 192510 pages, LIFO batch:16
> >> HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
> 
> Andi> Ok, it didn't oops. Just hung early. Probably needs some printks
> Andi> to track it down.
> 
> Andi> And the problem really goes away when you disable -funit-at-a-time ?
> 
> This was from both 2.6.2-rc1 and 2.6.2-rc2, and since the later
> doesn't have the -funit-at-time declaration in the Makefile, I don't
> think that's the problem.
> 
> My gcc version is:
> 
>     > gcc --version
>     gcc.real (GCC) 3.3.3 20040110 (prerelease) (Debian)

Well, you have some different problem then. I was assuming you used
-funit-at-a-time because you posted on the unit-at-a-time thread.
I don't know what's wrong with your kernel, sorry.

If it happened to me here I would add printks to the early kernel 
initialisation until I figured out where it hangs.
(it's somewhere after mem_init and before console_init in 
init/main.c:start_kernel). You could try that, together with earlyprintk. 

-Andi