Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it is booting linux but dying in the first kernel_thread call to start
> init. The kernel succeeds in doing the int 80 for fork but something goes
> wrong after that.
>
> Any ideas on why you would get this far and die, let me know.
The only thing I can think of is weird memory timings, or dma bugs.
Anyway pleas run memtest86 from linuxBIOS and see how that goes,
it should be good enough to rule out memory setup errors.
Patches so memtest86 compiles into an ELF image are available at:
ftp://download.linuxnetworx.com/pub/src/memtest86/memtest86-2.7.eb3.diff
The patches have been tenatively accepted but there has been no
stable release since they were added.
If memtest86 runs o.k. we can rule out memory problems and know
you have some device problem.
Eric
