> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware as well.
>
> Bill Gribble <grib@cs.utexas.edu> writes:
>
> > My Dell Latitude XPi (P120) has worked fine with 2.0.x kernels and
> > early 2.1.x kernels (early ==> before about 2.1.35, plus or minus).
> > I've brought all my other machines to 2.1.57, so I'm trying to get it
> > on the laptop as well.
>
> > LILO prints "LILO Loading Linux", and then the machine resets
> > spontaneously before printing the "Uncompressing Linux" message. I'm
> > back on my older 2.0.27 kernel, and it works fine; there's not that
> > much different between the two kernels with respect to what happens
> > before "Uncompressing Linux" is printed.
>
> > Any ideas what's going on here?
>
> Yup, "bzimage" kernels don't work with the Dell Xpi laptops. They
> reboot just as you describe (even with the 2.0.x kernels). This makes
> installing Debian Linux a pain. (I'm recompiling a 2.0.30 kernel as I
> write this, so I can install Debian on my Xpi.)
>
> I remember reading that at some point in the 2.1.x series bzimage
> became the default. BTW, I have P75 Dell XPi.
>
I had the same problem with an IBM ThinkPad 380.
astor