Re: 2.1.121 reboots at boot

Slava (slava_pestov@geocities.com)
Sun, 13 Sep 1998 13:33:01 +1200


It looks like you didn't rerun /sbin/lilo after you installed the
kernel.

Slava

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Slava Pestov (mailto:slava_pestov@geocities.com)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/7925
Linux 2.0.35 on an i586MMX (400.59 BogoMips)
> Hello!
> 
>      I am having boot problem with 2.1.121
>      When I try use LILO (20 from Slackware 3.5) to boot up
>      linux kernel 2.1.121, I just getting reboot right after
>      'Loading linux.......' in 6-8 tries from 10, some times 
>      I getting hungs instead of reboots
>      One or two times It is complained about 'crc error'.
>      However if I dd kernel to floppy or try to load it with
>      LoadLin from DOS, all is fine. I even tried to copy
>      kernel at another location on ext2fs to ensure that there is
>      not corrupted disk area. No luck. Kernels since 2.1.85 to 
>      2.1.120 behaves well, 2.0.X is good too.
>      If I boot 2.1.121, ten probability of loading next time
>      before power cycle is increased until I load another kernel.
>      Am I doing something wrong, or what can it be?
>      
>      I use just plain Pentium 166 and mobo with plain Intel VX chipset.
>      16M of RAM. All kernels compiled with GCC 2.7.2.3. Here is my /proc/cpuinfo, kernel 
>      config and output of kernel at boot time.
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 5
> model           : 2
> model name      : Pentium 75+
> stepping        : 12
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> sep_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : yes
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
> bogomips        : 66.76
> 
> Linux version 2.1.121 (root@mordor) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #7 Fri Sep 11 23:53:48 MSD 1998
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 66.76 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 14932k/16384k available (644k kernel code, 400k reserved, 376k data, 32k init)
> CPU: Intel Pentium 75+ stepping 0c
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb280
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 for Linux 2.1
> NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.16 for Linux NET3.038.
> Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.037
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> Starting kswapd v 1.5 
> Serial driver version 4.26 with no serial options enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: ST31722A, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: MATSHITA CR-583, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL_TM1280A, 1222MB w/76kB Cache, CHS=621/64/63, DMA
> hdb: ST31722A, 1625MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=825/64/63, DMA
> Partition check:
>  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 > hda3
>  hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 > hdb4
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed
> 
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
> CONFIG_M586=y
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
> CONFIG_KMOD=y
> CONFIG_NET=y
> CONFIG_PCI=y
> CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
> CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
> CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y
> CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
> CONFIG_PCI_OLD_PROC=y
> CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
> CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
> CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
> CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
> CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=y
> CONFIG_PACKET=y
> CONFIG_UNIX=y
> CONFIG_INET=y
> CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
> CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
> CONFIG_DUMMY=m
> CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
> CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
> CONFIG_NE2000=m
> CONFIG_PPP=m
> CONFIG_SLIP=m
> CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
> CONFIG_SLIP_SMART=y
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL=y
> CONFIG_RTC=y
> CONFIG_NVRAM=m
> CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
> CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
> CONFIG_JOLIET=y
> CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
> CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
> CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
> CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
> CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
> CONFIG_NFSD=m
> CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
> CONFIG_LOCKD=m
> CONFIG_NLS=y
> CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
> CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_866=m
> CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
> CONFIG_NLS_KOI8_R=m
> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SOUND=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_SOFTOSS=m
> CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
> CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
> 
> Bye,
>     Oleg
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