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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I gave up on the computer that sometimes tells me 'not a kernel image' 
when I try to boot any linux, and moved the drives to another board. 
Tested the RAM with memtest and it passed (three times through).
This computer has been set up with a 1996 NEC 4x4 CD-ROM drive which I 
don't expect to get working in linux, but in DOS I can read data and play 
music CDS from any of the four trays.  ccd and the cd player from a DOS 
office suite can handle the four drives but most other players cannot.

Nothing else is odd about this hardware that I know of.  I have one ISA 
video card and one SB16 sound card in here.  The sound card is working in 
DOS, plays midis and CDs (but the CD plays only out the front). CT2290.
No network cards, or modems.

I can boot into ramdisk BL2.  I tried first with the bare.i kernel, which 
I need to test sound with.  But when I use the identical kernel (straight 
from the CD, kernels/bare.i/bzimage) to boot to hard drive it crashes 
every time with three lines about NET:  Linux NET4.0 for linux 2.2. Based 
upon Swansea.... NET4:  Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0

Before this it was probing PCI sockets.  I have no PCI cards installed.

I tried three times.  With the original HD copy of the kernel, another 
copied from CD and booting with the path to CD in the batch file.

Is there some difference between the two versions that would cause this 
problem?

With the BL2 kernel it gets one line farther into booting to hard drive:
IP Protocols:  ICMP, UDP, TCP


HELP! On the previous motherboard it booted most of the time and now it is 
not booting from HD at all.  Same software (hard drive).

I can change the cpu if that would help - I have a spare 300MHz socket 7.
I do not suspect the CD-ROM drive since it recognized that okay.
keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org