Re: 2.0.33 bzImage booting errors

Hans Lermen (lermen@elserv.ffm.fgan.de)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 10:09:05 +0100 (MET)


On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Edward R. Hartmann wrote:

> Iv come upon a rather interesting error... Whenever I compile my kernel
> as bz rather than z, upon rebooting, the system will say "Loading linux"
> as normal, then about a quarter second later, the system preforms a hard
> reboot. (counts up memory, verify's disks, etc.)

Looks like the A20 cache coherency problem on some (seldom used) broken
harware. This is known, but a (generaly) suitable workaround for
those broken hardware has not yet been found.
( though there are patches for _some_ few of them, maybe they are at
linuxhq )

Hans
<lermen@fgan.de>

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