MJ,
It sure looks like EEPRO100 is turned on in the lui 2.4 kernel, I just
checked the .config file. So, I would say that it's probably not an
ethernet problem, that adapter is very popular and we would have heard if
that was broken by now.
The easiest way to build a kernel is with the mkluikernel command that
we ship with LUI. It is a very creative script that will actually go out
and download the latest kernel source from kernel.org, and build a network
bootable kernel for you.
Alternately, if you want to build a kernel by hand -- this is my cheat
sheet:
download and install the kernel source rpm
cd /usr/src/linux
copy the config file you want (the one with the correct kernel flags) to
/usr/src/linux/.config
make dep
make clean
make boot
make modules
make modules_install (since you're not building a modular kernel, this step
and the prior one will fail)
make bzImage
Your kernel will be created in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage (I
guess yours would be i686)
If you need to change any flags, the easiest way is by doing a make
xconfig, which brings up the X windows version of the kernel build tool.
Please post back here with any info on how you're doing.. .Rich
Meng-Juei Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@lists.sourceforge.net on 11/14/2001
12:34:01 PM
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To: Richard C Ferri/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS
cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] booting and Pentium4 computer
Hi Rich,
My ethernet adapter is an on-board (motherboard: Intel Desktop Board
D850GB)
Intel Pro/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter. It can be probed by the default kernel
of RedHat7.1. I am not sure if it's or not the reason.
According to the lui_install script, my bzImage file is from
/usr/local/lui/samples/bzImage.242
The boot screen is like this:
<skipped>
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1700MHz stepping 0a
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.73 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
Getting VERSION: 0
Getting VERSION: ff00ff
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1694.8856 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 0.0000 MHz
cpu: 0, clocks: 0, slice:0
<hanged>
It was 6 years ago last time I built linux kernel. Therefore it would be
great if somebody can give me a hand. :-)
Best,
MJ
on 11/14/2001 4:50 AM, Richard C Ferri at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> MJ,
> There are several reasons why the linux boot kernel might hang; I
> would not suspect the P4 first.
> I think more likely it's a question of the ethernet adapter. Which
> adapter do you have on the client? When the node first boots from its
> local BIOS, the BIOS configures the ethernet adapter. When the kernel
gets
> read in, it reconfigures the adapter. If adpater support is not built
into
> the kernel, or if the driver crashes for some reason, then the ethernet
> adapter does not get configured properly, and that causes the node to
hang.
> The hang is caused because the node cannot mount its root file system
> (which it wants to mount via NFS).
> So, which ethernet adapter are you using? That's the first suspect.
> If you do need to rebuild the lui kernel, you can use the sample
> .config files that are shipped as part of lui. Have you built linux
> kernels before, or are you asking for the entire procedure to build a
> kernel from scratch?
> regards, Rich
> Richard Ferri
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 845.433.7920
>> Meng-Juei Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@lists.sourceforge.net on 11/13/2001
>> 06:27:26 PM
>> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: [Oscar-users] booting and Pentium4 computer
>> Dear all,
>> Did you have any problem on Pentium 4 client when first boot from
network?
>> The bzImage (I think) just hang there after CPU probing.
>> Any Idea?
>> MJ
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