Re: Panic on a BIOSless machine.

From: Zwane Mwaikambo
Date: Wed Apr 27 2005 - 11:23:51 EST


On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Filip Zyzniewski wrote:

> Hi, I managed to boot kernel on a biosless box (Compaq T1000 Windows
> based terminal). It has 32MB of ram.
>
>
> But it panics (sometimes it even launches bash and allows me to run some
> stuff).
>
> kernel log gathered from serial console:
> http://filip.math.uni.lodz.pl/t1000-panic/panic.log
>
> asm code used to boot kernel:
> http://filip.math.uni.lodz.pl/t1000-panic/boot.S
>
> tool bundling boot and kernel together:
> http://filip.math.uni.lodz.pl/t1000-panic/mk.c
>
> kernel config:
> http://filip.math.uni.lodz.pl/t1000-panic/kernel-config
>
> I had to comment out: jnz 2f # New command line protocol
> from arch/i386/kernel/head.S (2.6.11.7) (bootloader too old?).
>
> Is there anything I could do to prevent it? I don't know memory map of
> this computer, is this the cause? I can't see video RAM on board, so
> maybe it is shared with system RAM? What do you think?

Try booting a kernel without the tulip driver

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