2.1.36 =?UNKNOWN-8BIT?Q?doesn=B4t?= boot

Markus Kossmann (mk@emil.inka.de)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 21:10:25 +0200


Trying too boot 2.1.36 :
lilo boot:
loading linux..

... and nothing, no message , no oops, no disk-activity
Same configuration with 2.1.35 : no problems

But loading the same kernel with loadlin-1.6a ( or even 1.5 ) gives no
Problesm
.config :
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=m
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_IPV6=m
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_TAGGED_QUEUE=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=2
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=10
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_LOCKD=m
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_HPFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SB=y
CONFIG_ADLIB=y
CONFIG_YM3812=y
SBC_BASE=220
SBC_IRQ=5
SBC_DMA=1
SB_DMA2=5
SB_MPU_BASE=330
SB_MPU_IRQ=-1

Hardware : Asus PCI/I-P54TP4 (Triton I) Intel P90 ATI Mach64 VGA NCR810
SCSI SB16 1 IDE disk 2 SCSI disks, Linux on 2nd SCSI disk using OS2 BM as
primary bootmanager.
lilo -v gives

LILO version 19, Copyright 1992-1996 Werner Almesberger

Reading boot sector from /dev/sdb5
Warning: /dev/sdb5 is not on the first disk
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Boot image: /vmlinuz
Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
Added suse *
/boot/boot.0815 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.

If you need more information, IŽll try to provide it.

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Markus			           <mk@emil.inka.de> (Markus Kossmann)