Subject: Re: Help: Boot Problem with patched Kernel
From: Christoph Wissing (wissing@mail.desy.de)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2000 - 01:53:29 MDT
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Donnell Hughes wrote:
> I have the following setup:
> PowerBase 180 (PPC 603e)
> 136MB RAM
> 20GB HD
> Sonnet G3 400MHz upgrade
> Macally PCI ethernet adapter
> Iomega Zip drive
> YellowDog Linux CS 1.1 (kernel 2.2.6-16bpmac)
> BootX 1.1
>
> During the linux boot using the new vmlinux, the process hangs. The last
> message printed to the screen is "pcnet32.c: PCI Bios is present, checking
> for devices...."
>
> What could be the problem? I'd appreciate any help.
The system complains during the check of your ethnernet card. In order to
become sure that there is the problem remove that card from the system.
If you can boot now there is most probably a bad configuration of the
ethernet in your kernel config file.
Good luck,
Christoph
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