Re: Macintosh Quadra 950 Not Booting
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
>> I installed MacsBug in hopes of finding something useful in __log_buf on
>> reboot, but the entire buffer is empty (zeros). I'd suspect the
>> bootloader is at fault, but Penguin successfully boots a 4.0.0 kernel on
>> my SE/30. Penguin log is attached, in case anyone's interested.
>
> I don't know anything about __log_buf. I suspect you'd need to avoid the
> POST memory test for that to work.
It's the internal buffer for printk():
kernel/printk/printk.c:static char __log_buf[__LOG_BUF_LEN] ...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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