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

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> 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.

We could also switch to another computer if it is a hardware problem.

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

Uncompressing linux.
General protection fault : 0000
cpu: 0

Same kernel ramdisk and ext2.  BL2, kernel I compiled for scsi and sound 
module support 2.2.16. I can try with a later kernel, and a non-sound 
kernel.  I am using the same batch file to boot as in the previous 
computer with the same drives.  Different video card (AGP instead of PCI) 
which is VESA 2.0 but I think it won't display framebuffer.  I have had
motherboards that did not certain video cards (three that won't do MGA, 
one does not like Tseng with X) but they never refused to boot with them.

The SMC network card might be too new for linux.  Made in China.
I put in a genuine RTL8139 instead.  I don't need to boot with net.i 
kernel now.

> David
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