Messages in this thread |  | | From | Christer Weinigel <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.14 fails to boot on a MediaGX | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2001 07:14:52 +0100 (CET) |
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In article <01111513115600.00812@blackbox.local> you write: >On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 19:17, Alan Cox wrote: >> Ok on my box it boots fine. As an experiment can you build a kerne with no >> PCI support (Im not saying it'll be useful production wise but it will tell >> me if its a PCI issue) > >And, interestingly enough, it does boot with PCI switched off. > >Given that it's a somewhat unusual motherboard, I'm pretty willing to just >put an ISA network card in there and write it off as flaky hardware, but it's >odd that it boots under 2.2 with PCI support on.
I have had some problem with the PCI direct probe on a MediaGX CPU, when the probe looked at the CX5530 companion chip the box would reboot. Could you try to only use the PCI BIOS method instead?
PCI support (CONFIG_PCI) [N/y/?] (NEW) y PCI access mode (BIOS, Direct, Any) [Any] (NEW) BIOS defined CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS
/Christer
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