Re: Kernel crashes before booting
Daniel Haude <dh@insitu.physnet.uni-hamburg.de> writes:
> With 'any kernel' I mean the Debian installation kernel and any self-built
> kernel (including the 2.0.0 that boots fine on my 386).
>
> The computer crashes right after the message Loading Linux...... AFAIK,
> the first step of booting is to load the compressed kernel image into
> memory (via whatever loading mechanism), and then the kernel takes over
> and decompresses itself (saying 'uncompresing Linux'). The loading seems
> to work, but the first piece of code that the kernel image itself tries to
> execute sends the computer into nirvana. So far my own diagnosis.
I'm pretty sure that if you were able to make a new boot-floppies with
the syslinux (1.43) from potato, that might solve your problem.
> I think this is a BIOS/Mainboard question. My computer dealer says, "your
> software is incomaptible with our hardware, so it's your fault"
Yeah, same old same old. They just don't want to bother.
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