Re: Kernel 2.14.19-pre8 fails to boot

[Riley Williams]

Hi Francis.

> On my HP Omnibook 5500ct, kernel 2.14.19-pre8 fails to boot.
> Immediately upon the kernel being run by the bootloader, the
> machine reboots. Nothing is printed to the console before reboot.
>
> This does not happen on my Dell Inspiron 3800, which boots without
> any problems. I have not tested anything else. The Dell uses Lilo
> 21.7.5, not Grub.
>
> I tried compiling a less-ambitious kernel (i.e., a 386 instead of a
> 586 kernel, stripping out everything I could think of except for Ide
> and ext2fs support, even not passing the kernel any "command line"
> arguments), but to no avail.
>
> My bootloader is Grub 0.90. On loading the kernel, grub reports:
>
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x8d6ad]
>
> Nothing out of the ordinary. Its only when grub tries to boot the
> kernel that the machine reboots.
>
> The next-newest kernel I've run on this machine was a 2.14.18, which
> booted fine, so something went wrong among the pre's.

I can't personally help with any of this, so I've forwarded your query
to the Linux kernel developer's list <[e-mail]> as
there's certain to be somebody there who can help.

The one thing I would point out is that a comparison between a system
using LILO to boot and one using GRUB to boot for problems in the boot
process is unlikely to be valid.

Best wishes from Riley.