On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 19:38:50 Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.6 won't boot > Date: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:58:37AM +0200 > > In reply to:Viktor Rosenfeld > > Quoting Viktor Rosenfeld([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 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 > > > > Also, as suggested in another mail, after the floppy stuff comes the > > network stuff. If this is still the same with 2.4.6 (it should be, but > > I wouldn't know, I have floppy support compiled as a module), than > > something is broken there. > > > > HTH, > > Viktor > > > > PS: I just compiled 2.4.6 on my machine, let's see, if it's boots. > > Just did reboot and here is what my dmesg shows > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 > ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker > http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html > PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0b.0 > eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0x6500, IRQ 11, 00:40:05:3D:34:51. > PPP generic driver version 2.4.1 > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0f.0 > > Boots fine except my OSS doesn't sork and they don't have thr 2.4.6 > version aavilable, yet. > > So I agree, the network is where you need to look.
Donald Becker, ethernet expert, apparently still works in the arena of the older (legacy) kernel 2.2.* . Jeff Garzik, who now does much of the ethernet kernel work, has made many changes. Jeff is very active, making many changes and quickly coding to users' concerns. But this activity has stopped some of our networking. Jeff wants Donald Becker to look at some patches, but Donald Becker is busy elsewhere. You can see one of Jeff Garzik's comments on this at http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-tulip/2001-Jun/0042.html That mail archive thread reveals much about current ethernet kernel problems. Going from kernel 2.4.2 to 2.4.5, my 4-port tulip based Compex FL400TX ethernet card no longer works: it works on eth0 but not on eth1, effectively reducing my 4-port ethernet card to a 1-port ethernet card. My problem upgrading to kernel 2.4.5 might be in Jeff Garznik's words from /usr/src/linux-2.4.5/drivers/net/tulip/ChangeLog, 2001-05-12 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * tulip_core.c, tulip.h: Remove Conexant PCI id, no chip docs are available to fix problems with support. I have read about problems running other multi-port ethernet cards with the new tulip driver; eg, the Znyx cards. I hope these multi-port tulip based cards get kernel support again, because many of us run firewalls so to conserve PCI slots we use multi-port ethernet cards.
