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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

I was able to boot the problem computer (a 233MHz AMD) using the 2-floppy 
BL2 set that we made and do md5sums that way, comparing BL2 and BL3 files 
on (1) the original computer (Cyrix 150MHz)
(2) the computer to which I made 
the first copies (Intel 233MHz) and where Bl2 works but BL3 won't boot,
and (3) the AMD 233 where BL3 won't boot and BL2 booted from floppy but 
half the time won't boot from hard drive to ramdisk and gives one of two 
error messages.

zimage for all 3 bl2s is the same, so is baslinux.gz, so the problem is 
not corrupt files, but something to do with the hardware on the AMD

zimage for Bl3 is the same on all three computers, but fs.img is different
for all three computers, meaning it is not getting copied correctly by
llpro.

AMD  12183e6f8.....
Intel  7007b612e.....
Cyrix  e974686b......

I did not check the other two computers.  BL2 worked on both.  I am 
actually surprised that 3 out of 4 'new' computers are usable.

I will try copying it via plip to the three computers where plip is 
working and decide what to do about the fourth computer where BL3 is not 
working and BL2 usually is not working and when it does work plip does 
not.  Maybe the floppy disk version will do plip properly.   Why would 
llpro work so badly on fs.img but just fine on zimage, is it the size?

Has anyone else copied installed BL3 between computers, or just the zip
file?  I did not want to reinstall because I have added and changed
things.

If I wanted this all to work right I suppose I could buy a new computer 
and a commercial package.  But the only new computer I ever bought only 
worked at the store.  They never tested it with the cover on, which caused 
things to contact that should not have contacted each other.  

> > > The problem is that half-way through boot I get to the line:
> > > IP Protocols:  ICMP, UDP, TCP   
> > > 
> > > and it gets stuck there.  
> > 
> > That's a kernel crash.  
> > 
> > > Is there some file other than fs.image that I should recopy? 
> > 
> > Nothing to do with the filesystem (fs.img).  The kernel is
> > crashing before it even looks for a filesystem.
> > > Can md5sum be used to compare fs.img's and zimage's?  
> > 
> > Yes.
> > Steven
> 
> The BL3 problem (on at least two probably four computers):
> 
> 
> I compared md5sum for BL3 fs.img on two computers, one of which works and
> one does not, and they are totally different.  The working one is
> e97468bb4a44c270023at630519981d3 (or something similar to that) and the
> nonworking one starts off 7007b612e36abbdd......
> 
> The kernel zimages on this computer (working BL2 and Bl3) are not the same
> for BL2 and BL3 which is not surprising since you recompiled to make
> zimage for BL3 smaller.
> 
> I get the same md5sum for zimage on this computer where BL3 boots and on
> the computer I copied BL3 to where it does not boot but gets stuck at the
> IP Protocols line.  So zimage does not appear to be what is keeping BL3
> from booting.
> 
> But the working and nonworking fs.img do not have the same md5sum and I
> will recopy that unless someone has a better suggestion. (Maybe tomorrow -
> it is midnight here after a long day of copying).
> 
> Would it be better to copy fs.img with plip instead of llpro?  Lllpro 
> seems to have copied zimage okay every time but fs.img is larger.  I 
> cannot compare fs.img on two computers where BL3 does not work because BL2 
> also does not work on one of them.
> 
> ------
> The BL2 problem (on just one of four computers):
> 
> I hope tomorrow to read some good ideas about the computer where BL2
> sometimes works and sometimes does not and gives two different error
> messages sort of randomly ('IO error while reading initrd', or 'not an 
> Image file').  I did a scandisk, no bad sectors.  Are there 
> ways to test the motherboard/cmos?  
> 
> We reformatted all the drives so it is unlikely to be a virus, or would 
> pqmagic not remove a boot sector virus?   
> 
> Sindi
> 
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