Installation of Slackware 3.6: kernel or CPU problem ?

Luca Lafranchi (Luca.Lafranchi@datacomm.ch)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:56:45 +0100


I've recently tried to install Slackware 3.5 in my PC.
Curiously, when I booting from the boot floppy starts the loading process,
but in
the middle of loading vmlinuz, the system reboots and then starts behaving
oddly (screen goes blank when it should begin checking the drives for the
boot sequence, etc.).
Why ???

I have this configuration...
AMD K6 200 Mhz (series B 9734BPF W)
64 Mb RAM
Motherboard IWILL P55XUW (Ultra Wide SCSI) see
http://www.iwillusa.com/products/P55xuw.htm

MMX (Socket7) ready
from 166 to 233MHz ,166,200,233MHz ,from PR120 to PR233

Pentium processor up to 233MHz
AMD K6 processor up to 233MHz
Cyrix 6x86L CPU up to PR233MHz

Adaptec Ultra/Ultra Wide SCSI is embedded for great SCSI
connectivity
P55XUB uses Adaptec AIC-7860 chip that supports PCI Ultra
SCSI(50 pin).
The data transfer rate get up to 20MB/Sec. and is equivalent
to AHA 2940AU.

Switching DC/DC Voltage regulator for CPU
Cool down CPU temperature,Increase system reliability,
and support CPU that require > 10 Amp

Auto detect CPU type and auto assign voltage for different
CPU function ready

Intel 430TX chipset,meet PC 97
AT form factor
Ultra DMA 33 interface,512K L2 cache
2Mbit full featured flash ROM
SCSI devices boot before IDE Bootable CD-ROM(SCSI/IDE)
USB,DMI ready

4 X ISA and 4 X PCI for expansion slots

3 X 168 pin DIMM sockets available,System memory up to 256MB
Support Burst EDO(3.3V unbuffer) and SDRAM(Synchronous 3.3V
unbuffer)

HD IBM DCAS.34330W (4,3 Gb)
CD-ROM Toshiba XM-3801TA (16x) SCSI

For the boot disk I have typed this command: RAWRITE aic7890.s A: and with
modules aha2x4x.s
I've seen that there are some problems with the AMD, although several people
are running AMD systems with no problem.
I haven't yet tried disabling the cache (please, PLEASE don't make me
disable the cache).

Can someone help me narrow down the possible cause of this sort of
error? CPU? Memory? Cache? BIOS? Kernel ?

Thanks very much !

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