Re: anyone have a 16-bit x86 early_printk?

Dave Hansen (haveblue@us.ibm.com)
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 08:29:45 -0800


William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
>>>I'm trying to get a box to boot and it appears to drop dead before
>>>start_kernel(). Would anyone happen to have an early_printk() analogue
>>>for 16-bit x86 code?
>>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:13:15AM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
>>It could be failing in the decompression routine if it was compiled for
>>the wrong cpu (ie. using cmov instructions).
>
> The cpu has cmov. It's Pentium-III. It suceeds in one configuration of
> the machine and fails in another.

Does this mean succeeds with 32GB, but not with 48GB?

-- 
Dave Hansen
haveblue@us.ibm.com

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