epox 4g4a+ (i845g and hpt372) with kernel 2.4.x: Ok, now booting the kernel. hangs.

epox 4g4a+ (i845g and hpt372) with kernel 2.4.x: Ok, now booting the kernel. hangs.

[Justin Heesemann]

Hi,
I've got some problems with booting a 2.4.19 (and other 2.4 kernels).
The system is a P4 2.0 Ghz Northwood, Epox 4G4A+ (i845g) with onboard HPT372 
and Realtek LAN, 512 MB DDR Ram, 80 GB Seagate IDE Disk at IDE1 and a CDROM 
at IDE2. I am not using the HPT IDE Ports at this time (also tried with 
disabling the HPT in the BIOS.

Ok. Whenever i try to boot a 2.4 Kernel (i tried the ones provided by the 
Debian 3.0 boot cd, Knoppix boot cd and a p4 optimized gentoo kernel) It gets 
as far as:

Loading kernel..................
Loading 
rescue.gz.......................................................................
ready.
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, now booting the kernel.

Then it hangs.
Is there a way to get more information what exactly it is doing before it 
hangs ?

-- 
Best Regards,
Justin Heesemann

Re: epox 4g4a+ (i845g and hpt372) with kernel 2.4.x: Ok, now booting the kernel. hangs.

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 05:46:30PM +0200, Justin Heesemann wrote:
> Ok. Whenever i try to boot a 2.4 Kernel (i tried the ones provided by the 
> Debian 3.0 boot cd, Knoppix boot cd and a p4 optimized gentoo kernel) It gets 
> as far as:
> 
> Loading kernel..................
> Loading 
> rescue.gz.......................................................................
> ready.
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, now booting the kernel.
> 
> Then it hangs.
> Is there a way to get more information what exactly it is doing before it 
> hangs ?
dunno. but:

Had a similar problem once, though on different hardware.
adding a mem=<some good amount less than you actually have>
did the trick. after bios update, I could leave it off again.
 (I think mem=480 could do in your case) 

just a thought...

	lge

Re: epox 4g4a+ (i845g and hpt372) with kernel 2.4.x: Ok, now booting the kernel. hangs.

[Justin Heesemann]

On Sunday 18 August 2002 17:46, Justin Heesemann wrote:
>
> Loading kernel..................
> Loading
> rescue.gz..................................................................
>..... ready.
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, now booting the kernel.
>
> Then it hangs.
> Is there a way to get more information what exactly it is doing before it
> hangs ?

Ok.. update:
I've testet some more kernels. I started with 2.4.0 which did boot, so did 
2.4.2 and 2.4.3.
With 2.4.4 it won't boot. The last message is 

Ok, now booting the kernel.

Which of the changes from 2.4.4 could cause this ?
Every other kernel higher then 2.4.4 that i tried (2.4.5, 2.4.10, 2.4.19, 
2.5.31) are having the same problem.

I am completly stuck. the ram is ok, the onboard graphic adapter seems ok too 
(trying to boot with another agp card doesnt help)

-- 
Best Regards,
Justin Heesemann