Subject: Re: Help: Boot Problem with patched Kernel
From: Donnell Hughes (donnell.hughes@leros.net)
Date: Sun Jul 02 2000 - 22:25:58 MDT
I removed the ethernet card, but the boot sequence hangs at the same point.
What else could I look for? Does anyone know of any precompiled/prepatched
kernels?
Thanks.
> From: Christoph Wissing <wissing@mail.desy.de>
> Reply-To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 09:53:29 +0200 (METDST)
> To: mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
> Subject: Re: Help: Boot Problem with patched Kernel
>
>
>
> 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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