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

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> > ---
> > I ttried to boot to BL2 ext2 with 2.4.31 kernels, David Moberg's and
> > mine without IDEFLOPPY support but I can't even get far enough to see if
> > hdb is found (probably not).
> >
> > Uncompressing linux...
> > ran out of input data
> > -- System halted
> > ---
> The computer is obviously a bit odd since BL2 ramdisk won't boot either,
> with standard 2.2.16 kernel.  Gets stuck at 'Compressed image found at
> block 0' and yes, I made sure 4dos was unloaded (which I hope also
> unloaded any xmsdsk ramdisks).
>
> 2.2.16 and 2.2.26 kernels (Steven's standard ones) boot fine to BL2 ext2
> and the latter to BL3 loop.

F5 during boot to DOS (bypass config.sys and autoexec.bat) fixed both 
boot problems.  config.sys contains himem.sys and two .sys files needed 
for DOS USB which don't cause problems with boot on our other computers 
(or with booting to BL2 ext2 using 2.2.16 or 2.2.26 kernels).  Odd.  Some 
interaction between this hardware and this kernel, I guess.

I have set it to boot with 2.2.26 as default (bl2.bat), and we need to 
bypass config.sys to use 2.4.31 kernel for USB.

Sindi