Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.24-rc1 fails to boot on a 486

[H. Peter Anvin]

Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 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 doubt he's getting far enough that he's actually getting early printk. 
 I could be wrong, of course.

> 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
> clflush size    : 32

Hm.  This probably shouldn't be displayed when clflush isn't available...

	-hpa
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