Re: MuLinux hangs during kernel boot on old 386SX - please help.

From: Karlheinz Koerber (Karlheinz.Koerber@t-online.de)
Date: Sat Jul 22 2000 - 16:07:57 CEST


I hat a problem like this long time ago with an ancient 386SX with only
8MB RAM and only one small harddisk. At that time I had some help from
the mulinux mailing list, thanks especially to Michele and Karl-Heinz.
They told me how to find solutions to my problem. Now I'm glad that I
could help you. You can read about such problems in the bootprompt.howto

  "In some machines it may be necessary to prevent device drivers from
  checking for devices (auto-probing) in a specific region. This may be
  because of poorly designed hardware that causes the boot to freeze
  (such as some ethercards), hardware that is mistakenly identified,
  hardware whose state is changed by an earlier probe, or merely
  hardware you don't want the kernel to initialize ....."

Greetings from Germany
Karlheinz

Valery Lashouk schrieb:
>
> what should I say ? :-))) It works ! Thank you very much !!!
> If this is not a secret - how do you know that ?
>
> Thanks again,
> Vlad
> vladnova@dds.nl
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karlheinz Koerber" <Karlheinz.Koerber@t-online.de>
> To: <mulinux@sunsite.auc.dk>
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 11:14 PM
> Subject: Re: MuLinux hangs during kernel boot on old 386SX - please help.
>
> > Try at boot : mulinux ide2=noprobe
> >
> > maybe this can help solving your problem, maybe not.
> > good luck
> > Karlheinz
> >
> > Valery Lashouk schrieb:
> > >
> > > Trying to install muLinux on DECpc 320p (old notebook 386SX / 8M Ram
> /HDD
> > > Conner 80 Mb (the only ;-))
> > > - it hangs deadly (only reset can help) during kernel boot after testing
> hda
> > > and evaluating it's geometry
> > > with message:
> > > "hde - probing STATUS instead ALTSTATUS..."
> > >
> > > Sure - I have no even ghost of other hdds except the only hda (Conner 80
> > > Mb).
> > > Did anybody have such/similar problem and how to overcome it ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Vlad
> > >
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