Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: test10 dies very early in boot | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2000 18:11:37 -0800 | From | dek_ml@konerdin ... |
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john slee writes: >hardware: > * abit be6-2 mainboard > * 533 celeron (not overclocked) > * 192mb sdram > * seagate 20gb ide disk (not on ata66 port) > >compiler: gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux) > >it gets as far as uncompressing the kernel and trying to boot it. no >further. (doesn't get as far as displaying the 'Linux version ...' >message). sysrq doesn't work (not suprising), ctrl-alt-delete doesn't >work either. reset button does work :-)
Um, I had the same problem with the kernel when I first downloaded it to try it out. I was stumped for a while, turning of a number of features in the kernel, before I figured it out. You need to switch the processor type the kernel is compiled for from "P-III" to whatever is apropriate for your Celeron (I used a P-II, which is basically the same instruction set as Celeron in Linux's view).
I didn't look at the source, but I bet early on the kernel tries to execute a P-III instruction when compiled for P-III, and the P-II or Celeron gets confused and shuts down.
Once I compiled with P-II, kernel booted A-OK to multiuser :-)
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