[BL] Loop BL3 with kernel 2.4.31 and emm386
Samual Acorn
sam.acorn at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 04:15:09 EST 2007
humor me on a theory?
disable all bios mirroring (video/system/shadow) and see if emm386
still makes a difference..
if no difference is found open msdos.sys (dos 7+ only) with a text
editor and add the line 'DOS=NOAUTO' (F5 does not always a clean
slate make)
On 23/01/07, sindi keesan <keesan at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> I ran across some old notes that reminded me that 2.4.31 kernel (which is
> larger than 600K) only boots with loop linux if you have emm386 loaded,
> perhaps because it needs the extra memory for the bigger kernel size.
>
> Hitting F5 during boot (bypassing system files) caused a 'Kernel panic:
> VFS: Unable to mount rootfs on 07:00'.
>
> Not hitting F5 means that with our ATI cards Xvesa won't work, which is a
> reason to use either ext2 linux or another X server.
>
> 2.2.26 kernels work without emm386.
> My linksys WPC11 ver 3 wireless card works with kernel 2.4.31 but not
> 2.2.26.
>
>
> keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>
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