From: "Jon Burgess" <Jon_Burgess@eur.3com.com>
To: cengiz@drtalus.aoe.vt.edu
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x kernels hang before uncompressing
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:13:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80256BD6.003883DF.00@notesmta.eur.3com.com> (raw)
> We have a Tri-M PC-104 system with a Cyrix ZF486 processor that (in
>addition to being painfully slow building kernels) refuses to boot any
>2.4.x kernels.
...
> It DOES appear to finish loading, because it outputs a linefeed after
>the line of dots in 'Loading linux....'
I experienced a similar problem with another National Geode board and traced the
problem back to the place where the kernel reads the BIOS memory map. I fixed it
by disabling the newer BIOS memory routines by adding '#define
STANDARD_MEMORY_BIOS_CALL' to linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S. Alternatively try
adding it to the flags in linux/arch/boot/Makefile, since the compressed/misc.c
has similar #ifdef's.
If that fails try upgrading the BIOS or check out the ZFLinux web site
http://www.zfmicro.com/
Jon Burgess
next reply other threads:[~2002-06-12 10:14 UTC|newest]
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2002-06-12 10:13 Jon Burgess [this message]
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2002-06-11 14:36 2.4.x kernels hang before uncompressing Cengiz Akinli
2002-06-11 15:17 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-06-11 17:31 ` Greg KH
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