Installation disk kernel decompression failure.
We're still trying to resolve the kernel decompression failure problem,
and we need some help:
* from anyone who has experienced this problem on their system
* from someone who can do a small amount of assembler coding
The problem:
On some systems, when attempting to boot from the installation boot
disk (boot1440.bin, etc), the kernel fails to decompress following
the 'boot: ' prompt. This is usually solved by turning off the
internal cache via the bios.
One possible solution:
On Aug 27, 2:40pm, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Subject: Re: Kernel decompression failure.
: I know what the next test should be, but I have not had time to
look
: up the appropriate instruction and code it up. Nor am I any sort of
: expert on 486 assembler.
: In /usr/src/linux-2.0.14/arch/i386/boot/setup.S, the cache must be
: invalidated before and after the "lmsw ax" instruction.
>-- End of excerpt from Bruce Perens
Please let me know if you can help us out.
Chris -)-----
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Christopher R. Hertel -)----- University of Minnesota
crh@nts.umn.edu Networking and Telecommunications Services
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