Re: Multiple kernels OOPS at boot on Fujitsu pt510 ( AMD DX100 CPU ) - ksymoops output attached

Alan Cox
2002-03-01T17:22:01Z

> Id really appreciate some help on this matter. Theres plenty of these
> 510's on ebay at the moment going very cheapy ( 100$) and they'd make
> nice wireless 'web pads'.

I have a somewhat older beast (Fujitsu Stylistic 1000) which is somewhat
older and a little lower spec that I've been playing with a fair bit getting
Xfce + scribble etc running on with no problem.

Generally when you get a crash very early you want to check
-CPU type the kernel was built with - your oops isnt an illegal
instruction so thats not it
-Disabling APM support
-Disabling PnpBIOS support (-ac tree only)
-Using mem=fooM where foo is a bit under what is fitted in case
the box lies about memory availability

That generally gets successes. You might also want to do a test boot
with mem=6M in case the machine has something funky like a 15-16Mb Vesa
local bus magic hole in the address map.

Definitely looks a fun toy