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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] BL2 - two odd boot failures.
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 01:19:42 +0000 (UTC)

1. Gateway PII, donated to Value World, runs BL2 okay and even loop BL3 (unlike two other similar boards, which may work with 2.2.26). Works with bare.i, BL kernels, my sound-scsi 2.2.16 kernel, but with the net.i kernel it starts to boot, 'uncompressing linux, incomplete literal tree, system halted'. Can't reboot, powered off. Repeatable. FreeDOS and loadlin, ext2 BL2.

I have an SMC PCI ethernet card that web research indicates is RTL8139 but it won't work with that or three SMC modules or eepro via-rhine tulip ne ne2k-pci, etc. 'device or resource busy'. (Could this mean the card is dead? SMC apparently used various chips from other manufacturers).

The net.i kernel in other computers always booted properly.

2. DFI in which we replaced the FD, parallel and serial controller. Transfered the HD from a Compaq (where we had to run hdparm so the drive would not keep resetting in linux and enter a number somewhere, also the USB and parport were intermittently bad). BL2 worked there. It won't boot in this box, general protection fault: 0000, cpu:0 EIP, EFLAGS, various eax and other register and kernel panic.... Power off and on.

I can boot into ramdisk BL2 and chroot to ext2 BL2 and insmod rtl8139 but this is not a convenient way to boot.

This is a nice board with lots of slots and scsi and zip boot support.
Any ideas how to get it to boot to ext2 directly with loadlin?

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org




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