On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Bostjan Muller wrote: > Hi! > > I have just found out that kernel 2.4.6 won't boot on my pentium 200 MMX > machine. The same has allready happened with kernel 2.4.6-pre8, but I thought > it will be fixed later when stable release comes out. The same kernel boots > just ok on my toshiba p75 laptop. Has anyone had any experience like that? > The boot stops after this line: > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > > and than it just stands there doing nothing and does not go on...
I have no idea, but on my system the next things it tries to do after the FDC message are the nextwork devices ppp and my 3 ethernet cards. Maybe this is a clue. Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP line discipline registered. PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP Deflate Compression module registered 3c59x.c 18Feb01 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html eth0: 3Com 3c590 Vortex 10Mbps at 0xd000, 00:a0:24:de:b8:27, IRQ 9 8K byte-wide RAM 1:1 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface. eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 0, new value is 248. eth1: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xb800, 00:50:da:11:64:67, IRQ 7 ...RickM...
