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

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Samual Acorn wrote:

> humor me on a theory?
>
> disable all bios mirroring (video/system/shadow) and see if emm386
> still makes a difference..
>
> if no difference is found open msdos.sys (dos 7+ only) with a text
> editor and add the line 'DOS=NOAUTO'  (F5 does not always a clean
> slate make)
This is an 'invalid setting'.  Our msdos.sys is a dummy one.

The kernel panic problem has disappeared (it was probably my error) and 
2.4.31 boots in loop but is Read Only File System.

> On 23/01/07, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > I ran across some old notes that reminded me that 2.4.31 kernel (which is
> > larger than 600K) only boots with loop linux if you have emm386 loaded,
> > perhaps because it needs the extra memory for the bigger kernel size.
> >
> > Hitting F5 during boot (bypassing system files) caused a 'Kernel panic:
> > VFS:  Unable to mount rootfs on 07:00'.
> >
> > Not hitting F5 means that with our ATI cards Xvesa won't work, which is a
> > reason to use either ext2 linux or another X server.
> >
> > 2.2.26 kernels work without emm386.
> > My linksys WPC11 ver 3 wireless card works with kernel 2.4.31 but not
> > 2.2.26.
> >
> >
> > keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
> > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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