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From: "Jon Burgess" <Jon_Burgess@eur.3com.com>
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Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:13:03 +0000
Subject: Re: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS
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>    The last message I see is "Calibrating delay loop"
>(I see this thaks to the Jtag debugger for Elan520 because
>I haven't configured the VGA board yet).

I've seen this on a board with a BIOS problem. I think it is caused because the
Kernel is in a loop waiting for a timer interrupt to occur. If the interrupt
never arrives it loops forever.

     Jon




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