Re: DVD Install of F8T1 failed on Dell Inspiron 860

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Chuck Ebbert wrote:
On 08/21/2007 09:31 AM, Pat Kane wrote:
 > Those are both syslinux (well, isolinux in this case).
 > Can you try adding "earlyprintk=vga" to the kernel command line?

That did not produce any more output, the last message  I see is
still "Ready."  BTW, I used yesterday's rawhide boot.iso for the test.

I just took a quick look at the early Linux boot code in
    ./arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
and I think that the function "decompress_kernel()" should be called very early
on, and that  the line:
    putstr("Uncompressing Linux... ");
does not appear to be working.

I wonder why I do not see the message "Uncompressing Linux... " ?

Because it fails before that.

Or we're failing to print that. Although that seems unlikely, this is still in the setup code that got rewritten recently, so it could still be another unfound bug...

Did we confirm that adding:

    edd=skipmbr

to the kernel command line doesn't help?

Doen't compressed/head.S come /before/ the stuff in .inittext (and thus before main() ) ?


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  Peter

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