Bug#272523: Booting without vga=791 parameters yields further information
Hello,
now I tried booting the kernel from the package kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
(version 2.6.8-3) without the "vga=791" parameter like this:
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-1-686
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1-686 root=/dev/hda5 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-1-686
savedefault
boot
This way I at least some output from the kernel, before it stops. I wrote
down everything I could see on the screen, since I do not know which part
of the informations might be relevant for tracing this bug:
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Local APIC disabled by BIOS - reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 1132.524 MHz processor
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache has table entries: 65536 (order: 5, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 381056k/392640k available (1542k kernel code, 10840k reserved,
684k data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
ok
Calibrating delay loop... 2244.60 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (oder: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16k, L1 D dache: 16k
CPU: L2 cache: 512k
Intel machine check architecture supported
Intel machine check reporting supported
CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - M 1133MHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done
Checking 'htl' instruction... OK
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Here is stops. The machine does not react to Ctrl-Alt-Del. Nothing
happens.
I press the power button for some time to switch off the machine. And then
I booted with 2.6.7-1 again.
Hope that this helps a bit.
Regards,
--
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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