RE: Afterburner running problem

Hello Alexander and ultra-sorry for the ultra-late reply,

> RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> 
> Nothing’s happened here.
> 
> Best Regards, Alexander Valitov

Hard to say what's going on here; probably need more information: 

- Can you figure out if there are Linux programs running or if it is just the Linux kernel? Every Lx app is represented by a TCB, so simply counting them in the L4 KDB should tell you that (the linux kernel itself needs 3 TCBs, as does each IRQ line and roottask). 

- Can you figure out, what Linux is currently doing? You need to again use KDB to look at the L4 thread hosting Linux kernel code -- which is the one with the lowest or the second lowest priority besides idle, depending on if other Lx apps are running. Using KDB you can then find out which IP it is running currently (you could also have a look on the stack), and match that against the binary vmlinux file, which you can inspect using objdump etc.

- Did you attach a serial port to your VMware box? Maybe it's as simple as that Linux spits its boot messages to the serial port rather than to the VGA screen.

- Have you tried using qemu ("make run-qemu")? Does that work? 

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