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    SubjectProblem with booting 2.0.30

    A friend of mine has a plain Dell 486, and has been running various
    versions of linux for about a year. He has used 2.0.29 since it came
    out with no problems. But when trying to boot a 2.0.30 kernel(both
    redhat 4.2 boot disk and self-compiled), it will only boot until the
    console: messages. Basically you just barely get a glimse of the
    console: messages when it reboots, and continues in this loop, like
    this:

    uncompressing linux ... done
    now booting kernel
    console: 16 point font, 400 scans
    console: colour VGA + 80x25 1 x virtual console (max 63)
    [reboot]

    This machine works perfectly with all other (stable) kernels, so it's
    unlikely to be a hardware problem.

    It's a plain 486 (Dell) and a SMC Elite ethernet card.
    I don't have the details right here..

    Any ideas what might be wrong?

    Thanks,
    ----
    Ole Gjerde
    Homepage: http://www.pconline.com/~gjerde
    Email: gjerde@plains.nodak.edu, gjerde@pconline.com
    Studying Computer Science at North Dakota State University
    "Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
    -- Unknown/Nem Schlecht


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