On Sunday 06 October 2002 01:10, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 01:57, Brent Hasty wrote: > > Attempted a dozen different things from grub to fdisk reinstall, still > > is being a brat about booting into smp mode. > > > > What is the best way to get debugging information from so short into > > the init process? > > > > Is there a way to make it go step by step, so I can at least read what > > is blasting by? > > If you're not booting in "quiet" mode, watch for the kernel to finish > loading. At that time you should see something like "press I to go into > interactive". Hit "i" (sometimes you need to start hitting it early, > and keep it up until it registers). Then you will be prompted for each > init script. > > TTFN, > Lonnie Borntreger hmmm, it does not even get that far in the bootstrapping process. Seems it reboots when the kernel is loading, specificaly when the smp kernel is attempting to load modules / drivers / or whatever around the power managment apm/apic and isa pnp stuff.
I tried building a custom kernel without the apic stuff and it looped even sooner, more like right after lilo handed over the hardware to the kernel. Some on this list have had trouble building kernels with the included sources, so I wonder if the kernel I built was suffering from a related issue. really a bummer to not be able to use my 2nd gigahertz athlon....
