Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:28:53 +0100 (CET) | From | willy tarreau <> | Subject | Did someone try to boot 2.4.16 on a 386 ? |
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Hi !
I just happened to test 2.4.16 on my 386 (firewall) and just after the message "Uncompressing kernel", the PC reboots just as after an illegal op, or a triple fault. I tried to diff between 2.4.13-ac8 (which previously worked) and 2.4.16, but I don't see many changes (except the CR2 patch that I reverted in 2.4.13-ac8 anyway, and which is still not present in 2.4.16).
I also checked for illegal instructions like there has already been in the past (cmov, bswap, cmpxchg) but couldn't find any. I could only find some rdmsr, wrmsr and cpuid in functions which, to my knowledge, are not called when an i386 boots.
I'm sorry I don't have the .config right here, but it's simply minimalistic : module, ide, iptables, serial console. Of course, I've already checked there were no accidental CONFIG_SMP nor MTRR ...
The system has 8 MB of RAM, and 16 MB of CompactFlash connected to the IDE controller. The onboard VGA is enabled and didn't cause any problem before, but it may be possible that the reboots happens when the system tries to change the video mode.
Since I spent a long time recompiling with several options, I didn't yet test if vanilla 2.4.13-2.4.15 could boot on this PC. I didn't test with a serial console either.
So my two questions are : - does anybody happen to boot 2.4.16 on a 386 ? - does someone have an idea of another change in the
kernel that could affect its boot on such a machine ?
Regards, Willy
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