Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 01 Sep 2000 18:05:30 -0400 | From | Matt Yourst <> |
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It looks like 2.4.0-test7 won't boot on a Fujitsu Lifebook 765DX. The kernel immediately hard reboots very early in the setup phase, before it even displays the Uncompressing Linux message (or so it looks.)
The machine's relevant specs:
Fujitsu Lifebook 765DX Pentium MMX 133 MHz 48 MB of RAM (up from the standard 32 MB)
The kernel was compiled for a generic 586 (the actual CPU is a Pentium MMX 133) with gcc 2.95.2, with all CPU-specific extras disabled. NFS root support, initrd, romfs and ramfs were compiled into the bzImage; everything else was modular (and never loaded.) The boot loader was grub 0.5.96, with both the kernel and initrd loaded off a floppy. I even tried explicitly specifying mem=48M since I've heard the BIOS has bugs on some Fujitsu laptops.
Note that the diskette boots perfectly on my Dell Inspiron and several other machines with at least a Pentium CPU, so it must be something with this specific machine. I have not tried 2.2.x series kernels, but since the machine is someone else's, I don't have unlimited access to experiment with it.
Any ideas? Thanks.
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