Subject: Re: Multiple kernels OOPS at boot on Fujitsu pt510 ( AMD DX100 CPU ) - ksymoops output attached
To: mallum@xblox.net (Matthew Allum)
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:36:32 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3C7F93B6.904@xblox.net> from "Matthew Allum" at Mar 01, 2002 02:44:06 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org

> Id really appreciate some help on this matter. Theres plenty of these 
> 510's on ebay at the moment going very cheapy ( 100$) and they'd make 
> nice wireless 'web pads'.

I have a somewhat older beast (Fujitsu Stylistic 1000) which is somewhat
older and a little lower spec that I've been playing with a fair bit getting
Xfce + scribble etc running on with no problem.

Generally when you get a crash very early you want to check
	-CPU type the kernel was built with - your oops isnt an illegal
	 instruction so thats not it
	-Disabling APM support
	-Disabling PnpBIOS support (-ac tree only)
	-Using mem=fooM where foo is a bit under what is fitted in case
	 the box lies about memory availability

That generally gets successes. You might also want to do a test boot 
with mem=6M in case the machine has something funky like a 15-16Mb Vesa
local bus magic hole in the address map.

Definitely looks a fun toy
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