Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 08:34:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 08:34:25 -0500 Received: from [194.46.8.33] ([194.46.8.33]:54800 "EHLO angusbay.vnl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 08:34:04 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 13:45:40 +0000 From: Dale Amon To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Pentium mobo fails on upgrade from 2.2 to 2.4 Message-ID: <20020309134540.GZ13355@vnl.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dale Amon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: Linux, the choice of a GNU generation Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I wonder if anyone has any ideas how I might dig out what is going on. Here's the situation. I have an old machine: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 12 cpu MHz : 133.637 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no sep_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 bogomips : 266.24 with PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82437VX Triton II (rev 2). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001]. Bus 0, device 18, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com 3C905B 100bTX (rev 48). Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0804000 [0xe0804000]. Bus 0, device 19, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0800000 [0xe0800000]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000008]. It runs happily under 2.2.18. I've confirmed that I can rebuild the existing kernel with the existing .config. It boots fine. I have so far failed to get a boot of any 2.4 kernel on this box. I've tried 18,17 and 6. I've tried it with a make oldconfig of the 2.2.18 as-is (well, plus the IDE); I've done paired down configs; I've made it no-module. I've been running trials on the machine as a background task for nearly a week with no joy. Oh, yea, I've tried upgraded and downgraded binutils; I've tried selecting 3 different processor types on the 2.4.17 kernel build, including 586. The biggest problem is I get no indication of what is going wrong. The kernel loads... and I get chucked back to a BIOS boot up screen. The farthest I've gotten was with 2.4.6, which got so far as to print one line from the booting kernel and then lock up until I did a pushbutton RESET. Advice on how to proceed would be much welcome. I've run across some hard cases over the years, but at least they gave me something to go on. If any one is interested I can send the various .config files, but I thought I'd not add clutter until someone actually expresses and interest. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Nuke bin Laden: Dale Amon, CEO/MD improve the global Islandone Society gene pool. www.islandone.org ------------------------------------------------------ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/