Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 May 1996 12:33:26 -0500 (CDT) | From | James Ryan Mitchell <> | Subject | Re: pre2.0.6 and pre2.0.7 won't boot on 386 |
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On Wed, 22 May 1996, Martin Cornelius wrote:
> hello there, > > has anybody else tried to run pre2.0.6 or pre2.0.7 on a 386 without Math-CoPro > ? > > On my good old 386 (AMD,40 Mhz, 8 Mb RAM) -- whrere 1.3.98 ran well -- > pre2.0.6 and pre2.0.7 hang at boot-time. > > Everything seems to be fine until the message: > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > is displayed. then after about 30 seconds ( this takes about 2 seconds > with 1.3.98 ) > > INIT: version 2.57b booting > > is displayed, and that's it, i have to press RESET to reboot. > > Clearly, nothing is written to the logs, so i don't know how to give more > information what causes the failure. > I'm using libc-5.3.12 and libm-5.0.6, and, of course, > the kernel was compiled with > > CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y > CONFIG_M386=y > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------- > Martin Cornelius, ZARMFAB software development > Center of applied Space and Microgravity research > ZARM, University of Bremen, Germany > phone: 49-421-218-4807 > FAX: 49-421-218-3887 > email: fabsoft@zarm.uni-bremen.de > snail-mail: > ZARMFAB c/o Martin Cornelius > Universitaet Bremen > Hochschulring / Am Fallturm > 28359 BREMEN > Germany > ---------------------------------------------------- > >
I am running a 386/40 with 8mb, no math coprocessor, and (I think) the same libs. I have booted it fine several times in the last day or two. The only diference I can see from your config is that I am using both the first bzimage beta lilo and the latest version 19, with SysVInit 2.60.
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