x86_64 "Bad RIP value" on boot

[Christopher K. Johnson]

Christopher K. Johnson wrote:

> Andrius wrote:
>
>> First off - I haven't got the entire dmesg, I didn't fancy writing 
>> (and the
>>
>> boot didn't get far enough to write to disk - I'm hoping someone has 
>> already
>> bumped into this and can point me in the right direction.
>>  
>>
> I recently had to capture console messages for a boot problem.  Check 
> out the boot parameters/grub, and the getty/agetty parts in the 
> tldp.org link below.  The first was sufficient to get me a log of 
> console messages from booting the kernel.  The latter if you want 
> login access via serial port after boot.  I used minicom on another pc 
> acting as console, and set to use 15200 n81 no hardware flow control 
> (cts/rts), then I added the following to boot parameters:
>
> console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/
>
Typo - sorry - 115200 is a valid baud rate, not 15200 stated in first 
paragraph.

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