Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:17:24 +0200 | From | Peter Wächtler <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.x kernels hang before uncompressing |
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Cengiz Akinli wrote: > Hello all, > > We have a Tri-M PC-104 system with a Cyrix ZF486 processor that (in > addition to being painfully slow building kernels) refuses to boot any > 2.4.x kernels. It has a M-Systems Disk-On-Chip 2000 (which ironically, > I got to work just fine with the 2.2.x kernel that I had to patch, but > NOT with the 2.4 kernel that comes with a driver), but I don't think that's > the problem, because the 2.4.x kernel is not even uncompressing, to say > nothing of booting and trying to mount the root fs. > > It DOES appear to finish loading, because it outputs a linefeed after > the line of dots in 'Loading linux....' > [..] > The lilo used to install the boot sector on this Disk On Chip is > a custom-patched one provided by the vendor. It works fine on 2.2.x > kernels. Should I suspect it? >
Perhaps the patched lilo can't cope with bzImage - only zImage? only a cheap guess
Did you try to compile the kernel as i386?
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