It looks like 2.4.0-test7 won't boot on a Fujitsu Lifebook 765DX. The kernel immediately hard reboots very early in the setup phase, before it even displays the Uncompressing Linux message (or so it looks.) The machine's relevant specs: Fujitsu Lifebook 765DX Pentium MMX 133 MHz 48 MB of RAM (up from the standard 32 MB) The kernel was compiled for a generic 586 (the actual CPU is a Pentium MMX 133) with gcc 2.95.2, with all CPU-specific extras disabled. NFS root support, initrd, romfs and ramfs were compiled into the bzImage; everything else was modular (and never loaded.) The boot loader was grub 0.5.96, with both the kernel and initrd loaded off a floppy. I even tried explicitly specifying mem=48M since I've heard the BIOS has bugs on some Fujitsu laptops. Note that the diskette boots perfectly on my Dell Inspiron and several other machines with at least a Pentium CPU, so it must be something with this specific machine. I have not tried 2.2.x series kernels, but since the machine is someone else's, I don't have unlimited access to experiment with it. Any ideas? Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------- Matt T. Yourst Massachusetts Institute of Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.225.7690 513 French House - 476 Memorial Drive - Cambridge, MA 02136 ------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
