Hello, I wrote to this list the other day about how I didn't get 2.4.5 to boot on my Compaq LTE 5200 laptop. This is a Pentium 120MHz, 72MB RAM with an OPTi Viper chipset. The strange thing is, all kernels up to 2.4.4 (inclusive) compile and run flawlessly on this machine. Only when I tried to upgrade to 2.4.5 did I get what looks like a hardware problem, and the machine does not boot. There is nothing wrong with the kernel configuration, and I tried gcc 2.95, 3.0, and, to be absolutely sure, 2.91.66 (the recommended compiler). I then had the same problem with a 2.4.6pre kernel, and, today, with the 2.4.6. The error message I'm getting now is: CPU#0: Machine Check Exception: 0x 106BE0 (type 0x 9). This line is repeated over and over again (with the spaces). There are some lines that fly by before that, though, and I went to some lengths trying to capture them the other day. (They scroll by too fast to be seen.) First I tried to set CONFIG_LP_CONSOLE and pass the appropriate line to lilo, but nothing came out of the printer. Then I tried lkcd (the kernel debugging patch/tool), but it seems that the machine hangs too early in the boot process for that tool to work. If the message above doesn't mean anything to anyone, I guess I'll have to rent a videocamera and tape my laptop trying to boot :) I stress that 2.4.4 still compiles and runs without a problem. Does this make any sense for a hardware problem? Was there any new hardware (cpu) check introduced in 2.4.5? I'd be very grateful for any tips, and could you please cc: them to me, as I don't subscribe to this list. Thanks! David Bragason, <bragason at uni-freiburg dot de> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
