[BL] Loop BL3 with kernel 2.4.31 and emm386
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Wed Jan 24 12:47:40 EST 2007
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Samual Acorn wrote:
> 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)
This is an 'invalid setting'. Our msdos.sys is a dummy one.
The kernel panic problem has disappeared (it was probably my error) and
2.4.31 boots in loop but is Read Only File System.
>
> 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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