Re: 2.3.99-pre9 spontaneous reset after unpack on 386

From: Cesar Eduardo Barros (cesarb@nitnet.com.br)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 17:42:15 EST


On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 01:30:02PM -0300, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
>
> Yesterday I installed 2.3.99-pre9 in my old 386. Today when I turned on the
> computer it started doing an spontaneous (sp?) reset after unpacking the kernel
> (the last message is the "Now booting the kernel" one, the 386 is slow enough
> to allow me to read it). The fix was to boot into 2.2.15 and then warm-boot
> into 2.3.99-pre9.
>
> This is rather strange. It seems that something in 2.2.15 is initializing
> something that 2.3.99-pre9 depends on (the problem happens before the console
> is enabled, so I can't say where is the problem).
>

After doing some more testing, I found up that bringing up the BIOS setup (an
1991 AMI BIOS) and quitting without saving or changing anything also make it
work out of nothing. This is pretty strange.

If someone wants the dmesg output, config file or something else I can send it
to the list.

-- 
Cesar Eduardo Barros
cesarb@nitnet.com.br
cesarb@dcc.ufrj.br

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