From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755718Ab1DVNrM (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:47:12 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:42689 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755537Ab1DVNrJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:47:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:46:48 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Chris Samuel Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu Subject: Re: 2.6.38.3 and 2.6.39-rc4 hangs after "Booting the kernel" on quad Pentium Pro system Message-ID: <20110422134648.GB23965@elte.hu> References: <201104222333.25546.chris@csamuel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201104222333.25546.chris@csamuel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Chris Samuel wrote: > This box has given me good service over the past 8 years or > so and I'd hate to have to retire it now due to this when I > feel Linux should still work on it.. > > Any ideas please ? Have you tried the earlyprintk=vga boot parameter yet? Maybe that shows more than just a silent hang ... Other than that, do you have some other box where you can build bzImages for this system in reasonable time? If yes then you might be able to bisect to the commit that broke it. Thanks, Ingo