On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 06:13:45AM +0100, Martin B?hr wrote: > On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 04:47:15AM +0000, Christoph Pfisterer wrote: > > I'm afraid I have to report the same results as Jim. CoLo loads the > > kernel, then the machine hangs displaying "Loading Debian". > > [ ... ] > > Anyway, does anybody have hints what could be in the kernel that causes > > it to hang? > > has anyone made any progress in this area? > > i managed to set up colo to allow me to choose between the original > cobalt system that i have on hda1 and martins debian tarball which i > have extracted on hda4. > the kernel loads and then hangs. > > any suggestions what else to try? > alternatively, what source is there to build a kernel myself? (assuming i > manage to get a build environment working (the disk is not exactly large)) >
You could try 2.6.9 (see http://www.colonel-panic.org/cobalt-mips) and enable "netconsole" (CONFIG_NETCONSOLE). If the kernel doesn't hang too early you might catch something ... You'll need something like the following in your CoLo script ... exec root=/dev/hda4 netconsole=@<Qube IP>/,@<logging host IP>/ and then run netcat -u -l -p 6666 on your logging host. P.
