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
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Meng-Juei Hsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@lists.sourceforge.net on 11/13/2001
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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?
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MJ
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