On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 16:00 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: > john stultz wrote: > > Hmmm. Are you able to capture a full dmesg? > > For the "it hangs" case, short of either trying to boot with the > console I/O redirected to a serial port or hooking up a printer to > the console and scanning in the resulting output, I don't think so. > There's too much output prior to the hang point to make manual > transcription feasible.
Hmm. You could give netconsole a try(see Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt), although if the hang is before that inits you might be out of luck. > > Also, does booting w/ "clocksource=jiffies" change the behavior? > > I'll build a post-"bad"-commit kernel later this evening and let you > know. Unfortunately, real life has to intrude for a few hours :-). No problem. When you can get to it. :) Also trying booting w/ "notsc" would be a useful data point. > If specifying the clocksource allows for a normal bootup, would you > like to see the corresponding dmesg output? No, although a pre-bad-commit dmesg would help. thanks -john - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
