* Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:33:02 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > > My old 486 fails to boot with the 2.6.24-rc1 kernel.
> > > Grub loads it, 4 lines of text appear but not the kernel's
> > > "Linux version <blah> greet", and the machine reboots.
> > > Double-checked with a serial console: nothing appears
> > > before it reboots.
> >
> > What four lines of text?
>
> They're impossible to capture because they're only visible on the VGA
> screen for like 0.2 seconds before the machine reboots and the screen
> is blanked; they don't show up on the serial console.
the way i debug these is to take a digital camera and make a movie of
the bootup, then check the movie frame for frame.
admittedly it's a pretty sick method.
Ingo
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