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[David Moberg <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

On 1/8/06, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> 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.

You could modify /etc/rc in ramdisk BL2 to do the chrooting for you.

Where does the GPF occur? Are you booting ramdisk and hdd with the
same kernel?

David