Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 03:25:26 EST


Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since 2.6.23-rc1 I can't boot an old k6 (with a funky IDE drive worth testing
> with libata). The boot hangs without a sound or letter prints on the
> screen right after grub, while 2.6.22.1 works fine.
>

So it's not printing "Uncompressing kernel... " at all?

> Is my .config broken in ways I can't see, or is this perhaps regression?
>

It might be an issue with the new setup code. What happens if you
append "vga=ask" to the kernel command line?

-hpa
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