Re: Debian refuses to boot!

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Daniel Isaac Rangel wrote:
>      bootstrap --apus -k vmlinux root=/dev/hda6 video=pm2fb:mode:800x600-60
> nobats 60nsram
> 
>      The boot process starts OK, but it freezes on this part: *Setting the
> system clock using the hardware clock as reference.*
> 
>      I have to reset after, booted without startup-sequence and ran dmesg to
> get the log of the boot process and send it here, however the dmesg tool
> always tell me: *Searching for saveKMSG magic...     Not found*

You have to add `debug=mem' to the kernel command line to make dmesg work.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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