From: "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:26:41 -0500 > On 3/7/07, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@xxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:55:31 -0500 > > > > > I built 2.6.20.1 and tried to netboot it. I got the same thing > > > "booting linux..." then nothing. adding -p did not provide any > > > additional output. > > > > This sucks, I wish I had one of these machines so I could > > keep them from breaking as these kinds of bugs are nearly > > impossible to fix remotely in a sane manner. > > > > Hohum... let's try to see where it dies, add this patch and > > reboot with "-p" again, thanks. BTW, you also could certainly > > add tracing printk() statements like this too in order to help > > narrow down where it dies. This is just debugging monkey work. > > > > Your patch doesn't produce any additional output (even with -p) on > 2.6.20.1. All I get is "booting linux..." and that's it. Weird, that doesn't make any sense. Please add a new printk() right before the "booting linux..." message and see if that gets printed out properly. If it doesn't, change all the added debugging printk()'s into prom_printf() calls. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
