Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I don't remember the original question, but . . . [for that matter, I don't remember which one was buzz. That was 1.1, wasn't it?] Anyway, with the paticular hardware we were using, the default kernel for 1.1 would hang on alternate boots. The solution was to hit reset (not power) after the

Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jan 20, 1998 at 02:48:42AM -0500, Rick Jones wrote: > That's a ways back. I had that happen. *If* I remember correctly it > had to do with using the dma channels to access the EIDE. I believe I > got the error from not allowing the PCI BIOS to handle the interupts for > the EIDE. It was

Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[snip] Joost wrote: > > When testing bo when it was frozen, I encountered similar problems with a > 486dx40 with 8 MB ram, a vesa-localbus Trident 9000, vesa-localbus ide > interface + ide drive, a ne2000 and a matsushita cdrom interface + cdrom. > > IIRC it hung while the md driver was probing,

Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-20 Thread Rick Jones
Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Any ideas? I want to install buzz to test the auto-upgrade. > Might have to use rex disks. All the hardware I have is an IDE > hard drive, a floppy drive, an ISA IDE controller, a Trident 8900CL > video card, and a 486DX2-66 overdrive chip, and 16mb RAM. > It doesn't seem to

Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Joost Kooij wrote: > When testing bo when it was frozen, I encountered similar problems with a > 486dx40 with 8 MB ram, a vesa-localbus Trident 9000, vesa-localbus ide > interface + ide drive, a ne2000 and a matsushita cdrom interface + cdrom. > > IIRC it

Re: can't install buzz!

1998-01-19 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I don't suppose anyone here is feeling nostalgic and can think of > any reason why the buzz (1.1) boot disk would hang on me? Kernel 2.0.0. > I get "eata_dma: no BIOS32, still needed" etc, then it hangs. This > is sometimes caused by NE2000 cards being

can't install buzz!

1998-01-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
I don't suppose anyone here is feeling nostalgic and can think of any reason why the buzz (1.1) boot disk would hang on me? Kernel 2.0.0. I get "eata_dma: no BIOS32, still needed" etc, then it hangs. This is sometimes caused by NE2000 cards being probed, but I pulled mine out completely and it stil