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.
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Matt T. Yourst Massachusetts Institute of Technology
yourst@mit.edu 617.225.7690
513 French House - 476 Memorial Drive - Cambridge, MA 02136
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