On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Martin J. Bligh" wrote:
> >
> > > For what it's worth, the last mm kernel which booted on my old P-II IDE
> > > test machine was 44-mm2. With 44-mm6 and this one I get an oops on boot.
> > > Unfortunately it isn't written to disk, scrolls off the console, and
> > > leaves the machine totally dead to anything less than a reset. I will try
> >
> > Any chance of setting up a serial console? They're very handy for
> > things like this ...
> >
>
> "vga=extended" gets you 50 rows, which is usually enough.
Doesn't seem to do anything, nor does vga=773 which I remember from the
days of using VESA modes. Serial is definitely the one of choice, this
video card is not cooperating. I'll bring a cable from the office Monday.
Stock 2.5.46 does the same thing, but so did 44 and 44-ac? is running
happily. I'll look.
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