On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:39:18AM +0200, Andrzej Krzysztofowicz wrote:
> "Jim Blomo wrote:"
> > Hi, I am having a similar problem with my new board/chip. I am using
> > 2.4.10-pre4, and when I compile with the Athlon/Thunderbird setting, the
> > kernel does absolutely nothing after being uncompressed by LILO. The
> > computer locks up and I must do a hard reboot to get going again. I have had
> > no errors (for about 1.5 days) when using the same kernel compiled as 386
> > and Pentium pro without any other changes. When I used make bzdisk and tried
> > to boot from that, it repeated the following message over and over until I
> > did a soft reset:
> >
> > 1007
> > AX:020C
> > BX:0000
> > CX:0007
> > DX:0000
>
> This has nothing to do with Athlon optimization. This is probably a broken
> floppy disk.
>
> This seem to be from the bootsector code from arch/i386/bootsect.S, it is
> exactly the same for all x86 processors and called before any other code.
That still doesn't discount the report because booting was also tried from
the hard disk.
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