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

BL3 loop works but BL3 from HD won't boot either.
(Using the BL3 kernel - I did not bother checking bare.i).

In the previous board, ramdisk, loop and hd linuxes usually booted (2/3 to 
3/4 of the time) but zipslack never booted.  On this board zipslack (from 
SW4.0) booted (very slowly).  A third computer won't boot loop BL3 with 
Win9X DOS but will boot it with anything else.  All using loadlin.

Should I try a different kernel?  Unplugging the CD-ROM drive?  A 
different version of DOS?  DR-DOS (which I have on here) worked on all the 
other boards (except the 'not a kernel image one', sometimes, where Win9X 
DOS DID work).  FreeDOS himem.sys seems to cooperate with Xvesa.
Are there certain AMD-K6-2 cpus that wont' boot?  We have two that look 
the same but this one was given to us recently not in a board.

Lilo?  I got dosemu working today so that is a possibility - work in linux 
and access Wordperfect with DOSemu, then reboot if I need more DOS.
Can I boot with lilo on floppy disk (to linux on HD)?    I don't want to 
risk making a real mess of things right now.  I can also go back to the 
DFI board that works more than half the time.  This one is faster.  ASUS.
My other ASUS with same cpu works fine with linux.  Same generation, 
identical speed settings.

The person who gave us this board did not mention any problems.  He told 
us what was wrong with two monitors (which are harder to get rid of if 
dead) - they have fixed themselves with a bit of unplugging replugging.
But it was from his office and came in a case with no power supply.
A web search found people with various other boot problems but not this 
one.


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

> 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.
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