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Hi Matt,

On Tuesday 06 August 2013 20:02:50 Matt wrote:
> Now that I've successfully built my kernel and initrd I have attempted to
> boot to it via pxe. I'm using ipxe (previously gpxe) to accomplish this.

When you are using PXE I guess you are running an x86 target.

> After loading my kernel and initrd and using the boot command the monitor
> flashes black for one second and then goes back to showing the ipxe output
> with nothing but a blinking cursor on a new line.

Does your system still have a serial interface? Maybe you should use this =

interface as the kernel's console to be able to see more what really happen=
s.

> Does anyone have any suggestions on what this could be? Is it possibly an
> output issue with the kernel or is it something more serious like my kern=
el
> or initrd is broken and it won't load? Is there a way to output more
> verbosely so I can tell what is going on?

Add the kernel command line parameters "debug" and "earlyprintk" (with this =

feature enabled in the kernel's config menu). Refer the in-kernel =

documentation "Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt" for further details.

Regards,
Juergen

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