Boot loop of 1.4-rc2

lib · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Location: CA, US

I just finished the procedure in installation guide and tried to boot from my ide. Lilo screen shows up fine, then when I select linux to boot, it reads the following:

idl · Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2003 12:00 pm Post subject:

Is that on a laptop? Cus some laptops require extra boot params.

Mr.Bob · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Posts: 1

I'm having the same problem with a fresh install of 1.4rc2 on an old Cyrix processor.

This isn't a laptop problem.

lib · n00b Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 5 Location: CA, US

The machine is a laptop: compaq armada 7350MT.

agentwd40 · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2002 Posts: 63

has anyone come up with a solution to this problem?

Im experiencing the same thing on a p1 100mhz

Topopardo · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 2

I have an AMD k6-2 400 on an asus p5a, and also reboot there

nobody knows what to do?

gamera2_00 · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 47

This sounds like a hard reboot being triggered by APM or some other bios feature. Try compiling the kernel with only neccicary support without APM, APCI, and other goodies. You may also need to pass some argument to the kernel for it to get passed the BIOS part.

Try a bios upgrade as well, the bios may have some unusuall bug in it. Or maybe the kernel itself is suffering from a strange bug. Also, disable some un-neccicary options in the bios, (power management usually being a major cause of problems in my experence).

In either case, try compiling the kernel with only the bare-bones basics. (No sound, no special input, only the IDE drivers you need for the chipset you have, the network card, the partition types etc.) If get a working kernel, put it as bzImage-safe in the boot partition, and make an entry in the boot loader for it. Then try slowly adding features to the kernel until you can identify the problem.
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