Re: VIA and 2.5.8-pre kernels doesn't boot!

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 08:46 12/04/02, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>>For me 2.5.8-pre2 and -pre3 (-pre1 not tested) both fail to boot on my 
>>VIA chipset box. 2.5.7 works fine.
>>Best regards,
>>         Anton
>>2.5.8-pre3 prints on serial console and then it just dies:
>>----snip----
>>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver ver.:7.0.0
>>ide: system bus speed 33MHz
>>VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE: IDE controller on PCI slot 00:07.1
>>VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE: chipset revision 6
>>VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe 
>>irqs later
>>VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1
>>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
>>hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
>>----snip----
>
>Does it crash dump thereafter? Could be that the code around
>save_match doesn't get it right.

There is no other output of any kind anywhere. I am both on serial console 
and on real console and both end with the hda line. If I can add something 
somewhere or whatever to find out where it hangs I would be happy to... 
(Remote gdb debugging is not setup yet as I have no idea how to do it...)

Anton