I tried loading the new Debian Linux 1.1 on my Micron VL system here at home. It does the Loading ... and Uncompressing Linux OK. It then prints about a screenfull of messages, ending with a message about my third hard drive, followed within about a second of what looks like some kind of dump. The interesting messages disappear so quickly that I can't make them out, even after several attempts.
The "dump" fills the screen with things like [<0010ffaa>], somewhat over a screenfull at a time. After about three seconds, it repeats, etc. At this point nothing I try on the keyboard does anything. I have to hit the reset button to get out. I tried disabling everything I could think of in setup; nothing made any difference. The same boot diskette works in an older 386-sx machine. I don't have any extra disk space on it so I aborted the load when it asked my to repartition the disk. The Micron system is a 486VL DX2-66, from July 1993 with the most recent BIOS available from Micron. It normally runs Windows 95 or Slackware 2.1 with a 1.2.13 kernel. I recently tried the 2.0.0 kernel and it works mostly OK. Here is the output of dmesg from the Slackware system: Console: colour EGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 33.55 BogoMips Serial driver version 4.11 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16450 lp1 at 0x0378, using polling driver snd3 <Pro AudioSpectrum 16 rev 127> at 0x388 irq 7 drq 3 snd2 <SoundBlaster 2.0> at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 snd1 <Yamaha OPL-3 FM> at 0x388 irq 0 drq 0 hda: Maxtor 7345 AT, 329MB w/64KB Cache, CHS=790/15/57, MaxMult=32 hdb: Maxtor 7546 AT, 522MB w/256KB Cache, LBA, CHS=1060/16/63, MaxMult=16 hdc: WDC AC2850F, 814MB w/64KB Cache, LBA, CHS=1654/16/63, MaxMult=16 ide1: secondary interface on irq 15 ide0: primary interface on irq 14 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 scsi0 : at 0x0388 irq 10 options CAN_QUEUE=32 CMD_PER_LUN=2 release=3 generic o ptions AUTOPROBE_IRQ AUTOSENSE PSEUDO DMA UNSAFE generic release=6 scsi0 : Pro Audio Spectrum-16 SCSI scsi : 1 host. Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:84 Rev: 1.0 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 01 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, id 4, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom total. Memory: 14792k/16384k available (672k kernel code, 384k reserved, 536k data) This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good. Swansea University Computer Society NET3.019 Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.019 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP PPP: version 0.2.7 (4 channels) NEW_TTY_DRIVERS OPTIMIZE_FLAGS TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP line discipline registered. Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Linux version 1.2.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.0) #4 Sun Jan 28 00:31:09 EST 1996 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdc: hdc1 hdc4 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. UMSDOS Beta 0.6 (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos) Max size:313058 Log zone size:2048 First datazone:20 Root inode number 40960 Adding Swap: 9996k swap-space ppp: channel ppp0 mtu = 1500, mru = 1500 ppp: channel ppp0 open I have tried just about everything I can think of, short of pulling out hardware. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks, Ted Haines
