Bug#270321: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: PReP boot failure

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

Hollis Blanchard writes:

> Does this mean the ramdisk is bad?

Could well be.  You can check its contents with 'fsck.cramfs -v /initrd.img'.

> Any way I can get some debug output from it?

On the serial console?  Put console=ttyS0 last in the kernel command
line.  Then /dev/console will point to the serial console, and you
will get all console output, not only the kernel messages.

> This machine has 64M of RAM, perhaps that's relevent... how much
> memory does your 43P-100 have?

Dunno, but I'll look it up the next time I boot her.

Regards, Jens.

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