I have a system with the following characteristics:
Micronics M54Pe, Rev B, BIOS rev 16, with a pair of Pentium 133's
64MB EDO DRAM
AHA1542CF SCSI controller with a Barracuda 9
Eon DaVinci (S3 Virge clone) w/4MB
WD/SMC W8013 NIC
Software:
The system is currently running RedHat 5.2. It is an upgrade of a RH 5.1
system.
I use lilo with multiple selections to boot various kernels.
The core software installed matches or exceeds software versions listed
in Documentation/Changes.
While I have had no problems building development kernels, I have had
problems booting (and testing) the resultant kernel.
The problem was that 2.1.128 rebooted the system when it appeared to reach
portmapper initialization. A comment from Trevor Adams
(highlander@teleteam.net) suggested I unconfig the experimental NFS server
code. This did the trick, allowing 2.1.128 to fully boot and start Linux.
There are, however, other problems, particularly running X windows (XFree86
with KDE 1.0). Depending on how the system feels, X will stay up from
minutes to hours, before something causes the system to spontaneously
reboot.
I'm looking at prior messages and other resources to determine the causes of
this instability, and will (hopefully) fix this problem as well.
I would also like to thank Alan Cox for his help.
-- "It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning ..." --Carlos Nunes-Ueno
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