Re: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Monday 16 June 2008 22:11:39 Sean Young wrote:
>   
> > The symptons are either a crash or reboot on booting the kernel. No
> > printk's have occurred yet -- even with early printk on.
> >
> > 2.6.15 worked on this board however current does not. I've bisected it to:
> >
> > 	commit a24e785111a32ccb7cebafd24b1b1cb474ea8e5d
> > 	Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 	Date:   Sun Oct 21 16:41:35 2007 -0700
> >
> > 	    i386: paravirt boot sequence
> >     
>
> Hi Sean,
>
>    Thanks for tracking this down.  Can we try reverting this in pieces to see 
> exactly what the cause was?
>
> 1) Revert arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
> 2) If that doesn't fix it, Try removing the 8 lines which were added to 
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
>   
And the arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_32.c change too, just in case...

> I assume this is CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n?

What bootloader does this platform use?  I wonder if it's setting things 
up in an unexpected way?

   J
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