Boot failure, VIA chipset.
Quoted 12 lines · Balram Adlakha
Quoted 8 lines · Daniel Taylor
I have a KT400-based system that will not boot the 2.5 series kernels.
It fails with a hard lock immediately after the video mode query when VGA=ask is set in
/etc/lilo.conf.If anyone else is working on this contact me, otherwise I'll post my results when I get it working.
And what happens when VGA=ask is not set? What happens when its disabled in the config?
It fails silently after unpacking the kernel.
Sorry, I was insufficiently clear on that.
So far I have tried:
Disabling all module functions
Disabling APIC
Recompiling for 386 rather than K7
Disabling all special video options (Framebuf, video mode select)
I have yet to try a completely minimal 386 config, that is my next step, then I start putting printk()'s in to localise the hang more effectively.
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