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

I cannot boot ext2 BL2 or loop BL3, but ramdisk BL2 (booted from a 
DOS partition) will boot.  I tried hitting F5 to bypass config.sys.  I 
tried the BL2 kernel instead of the one I compiled.  No help.

We are using MS DOS 7 on this computer because it has Win98, but booting 
with FreeDOS did not help either.

We have one hard drive with three FAT and one ext2 partition.
I can try a different hard drive or move this one to a different board to 
isolate the problem.

The only change we made to the software recently was to put two .sys files 
in config.sys for DOS, but bypassing them does not help.  (This was so we 
could use the USB camera).

The AMD cpu has the drx bug, says hwinfo, but I don't see any diagnostics 
apart from this.

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> Our fastest computer no longer boots into linux, starting today (after I 
> changed to the onboard AGP video from PCI, and changing back did not help).
>
> Linux starts to boot, checks memory, it gets a general protection fault 0000 
> and then it goes on to the cpu.  CPU: 0
>
> Then a lot of stack, call trace, code numbers (1234 0587 etc) and kernel 
> panic.

People reported similar finding when they were trying to write modules, 
but I have not done anything different with modules recently.

> memtest has not found any problems.  It boots into DOS or Win98 okay but not 
> BL2 or BL3 (from ext2 partition).