Hello everybody! I wonder if anybody has experienced a similar problem: while trying to install the kernel onto a new machine, the kernel starts booting, it arrives to the following:
> checking hlt instruction: ok > ... Then the machine is suddenly reset and the familiar BIOS screen is shown again!! The system is a new Pentium Motherboard: BIOS reports that is it a HX 512 KB cache system, also called Powerboard P586 TX ( ?? ) CPU is Intel Pentium MMX 233 The motherboard supports Bios mastering for IDE devices and has 2 serial port which can be configured as standard COM or USB Serial Bus port. I have tried EVERYTHING: starting with bare configuration, disabling caching, using the safer possible configuration. I have tried to disable hard disk and boot using only floppy disk (boot + root). I have tried different kernels, from Slackware, Debian and RedHat. I have tried also the new 2.31.0 kernel. The really strange thing is Win95 (OSR 2) boots without any problem and withu t using any non-standard configuration. Is it possible that Linux cannot do what Win95 does ? I won't believe it, but I actually need to change motherboard to have a fully working system. (The other devices should not be involved in the problem, perhaps only serial ports can do some mess, but I think this is very unprobable....) Is anybody who knows something about this motherboard model... I can try to dig other info, but it is very difficult since Linux suddenly reset the system and it is very difficult to read what is displaying. Is it possible to redirect kernel output at boot on a serial line, and if so, is it possible to read it easily, for example using another Linux box ? Thanks everybody! Gerardo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
